Comrade Detective is an American buddy cop series created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka.

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.

[4] The series takes inspiration from the Czechoslovakian show Thirty Cases of Major Zeman.

[2] They also took inspiration from the idea that growing up, American 1980s movies like Red Dawn served as both entertainment and propaganda.

[2] It also took inspiration from the East German series Polizeiruf 110 and the American film Lethal Weapon.

[2] Tanaka stated that the goal was to create the inverse Soviet equivalent of the type of Russian-villain entertainment common in 1980s America.

The detectives uncover a conspiracy to smuggle the western board game Monopoly into the country.

[8] Ben Travers of IndieWire gave the show a positive review, calling it a sharp satire.

"[4] James Poniewozik of The New York Times gave it a less enthusiastic review, claiming that the show committed too much to its initial joke and ran too long.