'Alert: Missing Persons Unit' review: Silly, but somehow you can't look away

'Even if you are my boss, one more Dora Milaje wisecrack and I'll lay the smackdown on you with my vibranium ... detective's shield.' Photos: Handout

After a few episodes of Alert: Missing Persons Unit, a police procedural whose title says not nearly enough of what you need to know about it, I fondly recalled my childhood days reading British weekly comics like The Dandy and The Beano.

You see, one of the splendid slang terms I learned from those periodicals was "barmy" – meaning silly, batty, bonkers, daft ... you get the idea.