Comrade Detective
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| Directed by | Rhys Thomas |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Channing Tatum |
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| Original network | Amazon Video |
Comrade Detective is an American satire buddy cop show created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. The show parodies Communist propaganda and US action/cop-buddy films and television shows from the 1980s by presenting the episodes as a fictional lost Romanian television show. Every episode was filmed in Romania using local actors and then dubbed into English as part of the effect. It was released on Amazon Video on August 4, 2017.
Channing Tatum and Jon Ronson present the show as if it were an actual influential Romanian television show from the 1980s. Produced by the Romanian communist government it served as Communist propaganda. Lost over the years, producers recently found surviving copies of the episodes. With the help of the fictional Romanian Film Preservation Society they have restored the episodes and dubbed them into English.
Within the show hard-boiled but troubled Bucharest police detective Gregor Anghel and his partner respond to a drug bust against the orders of their Captain. This results in a man in a Ronald Reagan mask killing his partner in front of him. Anghel, along with his new partner from the countryside Iosif Baciu, must solve his partner's murder. In doing so, they uncover an insidious western plot to indoctrinate communist society with capitalism and religion.
Each character is portrayed by a Romanian actor, as well as an English-language voice actor. The show was first filmed using Romanian actors speaking Romanian. Actors then over-dubbed every role in English.
When first conceiving the series, executive producer Channing Tatum asked the creators to bring him the worst ideas they could think of, with the reasoning "When you try to find something that is not working, you figure out what’s cool about it, and you can find some really hidden gems.” Gatewood and Tanaka pitched a satire series that spoofed Communist propaganda from the 1980s. The two had become fascinated with Soviet propaganda television after seeing a mid-80s PBS documentary on Soviet broadcasts. They initially looked into dubbing over real Eastern bloc television shows but realized it would be easier to make their own show rather than procure the rights.
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