DECEMBER 8, 2019 – Friday evening my wife and I binge-watched on Netflix, Martin Scorsese’s masterwork, The Irishman. I say “binge-watched,” because though the film is not a series, it runs for three-and-a-half-hours—the equivalent of several back-to-back episodes of a series. The title role, played by Robert De Niro, was the nickname of Frank Sheeran, …