EPISODE
Comrade Detective - Season 1
In this exciting series, we present a series of powerful events that speak of a range of issues dealt with by the Romanian police in the 1980s. The events of the series began after the murder of his partner, where the investigator of Bucharest Gregor Engel teamed up with the new investigator Joseph Paseo to search for the mysterious killer in the case of the most mysterious and powerful. On the other hand, it seems that the case will come to a standstill and Gregor should reconsider the unpleasant part of his past.
11 September 1965, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
15 July 1959, Hunedoara, Romania
4 July 1965, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
12 August 1974, Kishinyov, USSR [now Chisinau, Moldova]
17 September 1972, San Diego, California, USA
22 August 1985, Bucharest, Romania
4 May 1947, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
26 March 1957, Bucharest, Romania
25 March 1982, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
15 February 1971, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
16 February 1974, Oakland, California, USA
August 16, 2017
It's a sketch the size of a miniseries, a molehill made into a mountain.
August 07, 2017
You could call Comrade Detective a one-joke affair, but that could also be said of Airplane. Inside that one joke, series creators Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka have built a deep reservoir of comedy.
August 08, 2017
Faux-'80s Romanian cop series is a thought-provoking hoot.
August 07, 2017
The case itself is full of twists and suspense and plenty of 80s cop drama cliches, but the real genius comes with the political edge.
August 07, 2017
This six-episode series is meant to make us question the ways propaganda and slogans can infiltrate and influence society; a timely message wrapped tightly within an effective comedic conceit.
August 07, 2017
The jokes are more prickling than hilarious, though I do cherish the recurring gag of the extras -- street vendors and security guards -- being given the dopiest lines, voiced by the weakest actors.
August 07, 2017
The result is a kind of Mad magazine parody of tough-guy 1980s cop shows crossed with a Marxist-Leninist version of Woody Allen's hilariously counterfeit Japanese spy thriller What's Up, Tiger Lily?
August 04, 2017
It slips in commentary under the guise of laughter, but the point of the joke, whether you chuckle or not, sticks with you.
August 17, 2017
And yet for all its off-the-wall wackiness and occasionally rococo caricatures, Comrade Detective is, in its own unique way, quite a serious little bit of telly.
August 09, 2017
It feels silly and outdated, yet the Communist propaganda parody is full of Marx references and witty nationalist gibes.