Devil Inside

Game of Thrones does something weird to you. You start with these characters who have reasons, and the show just keeps validating them. Tyrion’s funny, Cersei’s protective, Daenerys is liberating people—and somewhere in the middle of all that, you’re rooting for increasingly terrible things. Not because you’re fooled, but because the show keeps handing you reasons that actually make sense. By the time you’re hoping for mass violence or betrayal, you’ve rationalized it so thoroughly that it feels justified. That’s the real horror—watching yourself become complicit, seeing how easily you can justify darkness if someone just explains it well enough.