Netflix’s smash hit foreign-language series have audiences ensnared like a laboratory-developed pheromone. Ed Cumming gets to the bottom of the streaming service’s winning recipe – and asks whether others can replicate it...

Gags about killing women, declaring himself ‘Team Terf’ – the comedian who once poked fun at racists now specialises in mean-spirited, punching-down humour, says Micha Frazer-Carroll, and it’s no joke