Dramatic irony, risk, and threat in successful television shows

Something I’ve noticed that often successful TV shows use dramatic irony as a great means to hook audiences. They are manipulative, secretive characters that have a second identity. There’s a risk and a threat if they are caught, this could mean death.

Often, the aspect of these characters that keeps us divided is that some of them are morally just, like Merlin, but committing a crime.