Comrade Detective (Season 1)

Comrade Detective (2017) is an Amazon original mockumentary you can watch online on iFILM — presented as a long-lost Romanian buddy-cop series from the 1980s, shot as Communist-era propaganda and now "dubbed into English for the first time."

The conceit is fully committed: the footage was shot in Romania with Romanian actors Florin Piersic Jr. and Corneliu Ulici in the leads, then Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt stepped in as their English voice doubles, with Kim Basinger, Chloë Sevigny, and Mahershala Ali dubbing supporting parts. The two Bucharest detectives investigating a colleague's murder do so with straight-faced socialist conviction, denouncing American capitalism in every other scene.

Director Rhys Thomas keeps the parody pitch-perfect — the show earns its laughs without winking at the camera once, which is exactly what makes it land. Stream Comrade Detective (2017) online on iFILM.