At a moment of sky-high inflation and a brutal cost-of-living crisis, what our famished souls long for is obviously a bonkers television series about a filthy rich dog. That seems to be the calculation Netflix has made with its big new release Gunther’s Millions, anyway. It opens with shots of said dog, a rather handsome German Shepherd, being served fancy food by a waiter in a lavish dining room, frolicking in the grounds of an opulent estate and travelling by private jet across the world. This is Gunther, we learn, and he was left a fortune by a dotty German...