The latest adaptation of one of the literary supervillain’s bestsellers is packed to the rafters with nonsense. DNA swapping! Swiss orphans! Mad accents! It’s irredeemably awful, writes Adam White, and also... completely irresistible?

Severance’s Britt Lower stars in Netflix’s latest lot of cobblers. It’s an eight-part saga of fists and mumbling, with a script made from Play-Doh

The latest adaptation of one of the literary supervillain’s bestsellers is packed to the rafters with nonsense. DNA swapping! Swiss orphans! Mad accents! It’s irredeemably awful,…