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Critic Reviews
IndieWireAug 4, 2017
Aug 15, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The layers of this narrative onion make the characters more complex than perhaps was intended. Crafted to embody a political point, which is at the same time being skewered, they are doubly (at least) fictional. Played by humans, they are inevitably humanized, and at some point, the ironies break down and you care what happens to them, as people.
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Aug 3, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Comrade Detective stabs toward the acutely insightful and the bluntly caricatured without apparent distinction, because it leaves that distinction to the viewer. It’s not your average television comedy--and certainly a far cry from the classic model, that would deliver the expected laughs right to your living room. But as journey through film conventions and assumptions about identity, Comrade Detective is quite a trip.
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Aug 3, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Director Rhys Thomas shows admirable restraint in not applying too much period embellishment, or letting Comrade Detective become a one-joke show. It works as drama, as well as comedy, and it seems as if putting it together might have been fun. The finished product certainly is.
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Aug 3, 2017
Season 1 Review:
It draws in you in with the novelty of its approach and keeps you hooked even though what’s happening onscreen is, dramatically and aesthetically speaking, not much deeper or better-made than a Cannon film starring a third-stringer like Michael Dudikoff. But it is intriguing, even if it doesn’t quite justify its modest six-episode run.
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Jul 31, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Comrade is one of those amusing-in-theory concepts that struggle to rise above the level of a cult-comedy inside joke. [4 Aug 2017, p.56]
Aug 1, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Neither fish nor fowl, Comrade Detective is still modestly enjoyable. The Romanian actors are quite good, and the series has effective, albeit violent, action scenes. The finale is really over the top, so much so that you watch it thinking this is what Gatewood and Tanaka should have been doing all along.
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