No black and white on screen or real life

Cases like the Indrani one or television series like Game of Thrones blur out our strict notions of black and white, and vicariously help us identify with areas of grey in our lives -- of course, without having to say so.

Ever since this murder most foul and case most convoluted was outed on television screens in front of our eyes, many of us have remained fixated to live updates on the Indrani Mukerjea 'scandal' - that has rocked India, befuddled legal brains, and continues to get murkier by the hour. Alongside, there has been the other matter of Game of Thrones creating history. In some subliminal way, the two are connected.
The HBO-produced medieval fantasy epic saga has entered the hallowed portals of the 2016 edition of Guinness World Records because Episode 2 of Season 5 - aptly titled The House of Black and White - was, earlier in the year, telecast in 173 countries simultaneously. The category is called 'largest drama simulcast' and this vast audience grandstanding was done in an attempt to pre-empt piracy. Game of Thrones is so popular that it's the most illegally downloaded series; one report claims GoT is illegally downloaded 116,000 times a day. Why do you think the series is so popular that people cannot wait for it to be aired legitimately?
The answer's simple: we hate to admit it but, let's face it, we love murky, dark, suspenseful, scandalous stuff; skeletons in the family - or lineage - cupboard that come tumbling out; devious plots and counter plots; basically, a world that is not guided by straitjacketed mores we are so used to believing in. The worse, the better. GoT has been raising collective eyebrows for its disturbing excesses and, the passing of betrayal and treachery as ways of life, but that hasn't managed to put off viewers who, remote in hand (or mouse under the thumb), have been riveted to the screen. Cases like the Indrani one or television series like Game of Thrones blur out our strict notions of black and white, and vicariously help us identify with areas of grey in our lives - of course, without having to say so.