Comrade Detective
2017 · TV Series · TV-MA · 40 min · ★ 6.3 · 76% critics
A gritty, sexy buddy-cop series set in 1980s Romania is presented as a “rediscovered” communist-era show, now digitally remastered and dubbed into English. It leans into Cold War attitudes and propaganda-style storytelling while mixing crime cases, partnership friction, and broad stereotypes about the West.
Also known as Iron Fisting
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-08-04
- Network
- Prime Video
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Runtime
- 40 min
- Critic score
- 76/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (42 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a weird, meta buddy-cop throwback with Cold War parody and a dubbed-in-English gimmick; Not for you if you need consistent laughs, subtle politics, or hate dubbing, like in Jean-Claude Van Johnson.
Pros: clever found-show premise; entertaining buddy-cop energy; occasional sharp satire | Cons: uneven comedy; dubbing can distract; tone feels confused
Themes
- spoof
- police detective
- romania
Cast & crew
Channing Tatum
as Gregor Anghel (voice)
Florin Piersic Jr.
as Gregor Anghel
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
as Iosif Baciu (voice)
Corneliu Ulici
as Iosif Baciu
Kim Basinger
as Sally Smith (voice)
- JD
John DeLuca
as Young Nikita (voice)
- JS
Jenny Slate
as Jane (voice)
- ON
Olivia Niță
as Jane
- JM
Jason Mantzoukas
as Dragos (voice)
- FG
Florin Galan
as Dragos
Directed by Rhys Thomas
Created by Alessandro Tanaka, Brian Gatewood
Episodes1 season · 6 episodes
Season 16 episodes
- S1E1The Invisible Hand40m
- S1E2No Exit40m
- S1E3Bread Is Bread40m
- S1E4Two Films for One Ticket40m
- S1E5The Whole World Is Watching40m
- S1E6Survival of the Fittest40m