Comrade Detective (2017)

Directed by

Rhys Thomas

Genre

historical fiction, buddy cop film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A buddy cop series that pretends to be a lost Romanian communist show from the 1980s. Two detectives fight crime while promoting a communist worldview, and everything is dubbed into English for effect.

nostalgicsatiricalfunnyretroartificialpropagandisticquirkylighthearted

What happens

Comrade Detective is an American buddy cop series created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. The show follows the premise of popular US action/cop-buddy films and television shows from the 1980s and presents the episodes as a fictional lost Romanian television show commissioned by the Communist Party to promote a communist worldview during the Cold War. Every episode was filmed in Romania using local actors and then dubbed into English as part of the effect. It was released on Amazon Prime Video on August 4, 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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