In an era of episodic, thoughtful television, Amazon’s Alpha House, about four senators who share a bachelor pad, falls too easily into groan-worthy predictable sitcom pablum.
Which is more representative of the wonders of this whiz-bang age—the latest crap from one of the networks or studios, streaming ghostlike into your home and shrunk to the size of a cellphone for repeated or intermittent viewing, or the crap from some era long ago, resuscitated and now living...
