Below, HBO shares a Q&A with the showrunner, who talks about the project's origins,
the moral gray zones of his heroes and villains and the sociopolitical lines in the sand the series addresses.
The intention may have been to land in some kind of
moral gray zone but somewhere along the line moral complication got mixed up with poor storytelling, and the result is The Fifth Estate.
Not exact matches
Further, we recognize that the need to reduce
moral dilemmas full of
gray zones to black - and - white issues, and the desire to be able to declare
moral certitude in tight, precise phrases, characterizes a stage of
moral development which is somewhat less than the highest.