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Comrade Detective (TV Series)

Comrade Detective

2017

Brian Gatewood (Creator), Alessandro Tanaka (Creator) ...

Channing Tatum, Florin Piersic Jr., Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jenny Slate ...

6.1

27

TV Series. Action. Comedy In the thick of 1980's Cold War hysteria, the Romanian government created the country's most popular and longest-running series, 'Comrade Detective', a sleek and gritty police show that not only entertained its citizens but also promoted Communist ideals and inspired a deep nationalism. The action-packed and blood-soaked first season finds Detectives Gregor Anghel and Joseph Baciu investigating the murder of fellow officer Nikita ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Mark Perigard Boston Herald	"It’s an elaborate joke. Some people will be fooled (...) There’s no way to be sure if he’s telling the truth. But if he is, it was time well and weirdly spent."	POS
United States	David Wiegand SFGATE	"'Comrade Detective' was a great idea for an hour-long one-off, or, at best, a more leisurely 90 minutes, but kind of a so-so idea for a six-episode miniseries (...) The finale is really over the top"	NEU
United Kingdom	Eleanor Bley Griffiths Radio Times	"It's a kind of pastiche, a satire, a whodunnit detective show with a dryly witty script that becomes hilarious once you've got the joke."	POS
United States	Sonia Saraiya Variety	"All together it makes for a thought experiment more than a story, with occasional flashes of brilliance (...) As journey through film conventions and assumptions about identity, 'Comrade Detective' is quite a trip."	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture	"Be suspicious of anybody who tells you that this series is a laugh riot. It’s just not (...) It is intriguing, even if it doesn’t quite justify its modest six-episode run"	NEU
United States	James Poniewozik The New York Times	"It’s a brilliant idea. But it’s not much more than an idea (...) [It] is so committed to the verisimilitude of a hamfisted propaganda drama (...) that it often plays like one."	NEU

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