There’s another serious new player in the ever-expanding universe of online original-content providers (see: Netflix and Hulu) — and happily, Amazon’s entry into this suddenly cluttered marketplace is not just seriously funny, but it’s as bracingly timely as the latest exasperating political headline.
Alpha House (three episodes bow Friday on amazon.com, with future episodes available to Amazon Prime subscribers) is satire at its most blistering and biting, delivered by a master of the trade: Doonesbury‘s Garry Trudeau, whose contempt for political cynicism, venality and hypocrisy doesn’t keep the jaded protagonists of this bawdy, brazen comedy from being great company. The setting is a Washington, D.C., row house, home away from home for four Republican senators, led by the fearlessly outrageous John Goodman as a good-old-boy/former football star who’s outraged to discover he won’t be able to coast through his next election. (His new opponent: a legendary Duke coach. As someone observes: “You’re like a retired god. He’s active.”)
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