What do Romanians think about 'Comrade Detective'?

You are sadly mistaken if you think that, since Comrade Detective exists and it has been made by Americans, that the greater American public actually has a good idea of the reality of Romania’s 1980s. read more

All Comrade Detective does, is just an irony of the false, superficial image Americans and other foreigners have of Romania in the 1980s. Which younger Romanians, along with other Eastern Europeans could dangerously trick themselves into believing is a true depiction, at some level. read more

The pair didn’t want Comrade Detective simply to be a satirical remake of what had come before: They wanted it to feel synchronous with late-Cold War Romania. To that end, the series is presented as a long-lost Romanian cop show that’s only recently been recovered, restored and overdubbed for Western release. read more