Comrade Detective has a lot of good things going for it, but IMO does not execute it properly to get maximum comedy and actual believability. The English voiced dubbed are perfect and fit well with the style, but it's too hard to believe that this is a Romanian production at the height of the Cold War because of the slickness of the show's production values. The entire production doesn't look like it was done on the cheap as would be a typical Communist Cold War television show, even if the show was intended to be an important tool for propaganda. It would have been smart for show runners to examine Garth Marenghi's Darkplace beforehand to get a feel for cheap production values and one-take scenes with much less than perfect acting, lighting, sound, editing...you name it. There's little entertainment shows to be found from the USSR during this era, but it was all done on the very cheap. This looks like a properly budgeted American show, and it hurts the effect they were going for.
Review of Comrade Detective
