This may be the scariest aspect of “Breaking Bad,” and of the drug trade itself: the more ghoulish and extreme the show becomes, the more it seems to traffic not in realism but in horror, and the more accurately it captures the reality of the cartels and their business.
Patrick Radden Keefe on the uncannily accurate depiction of the meth trade in “Breaking Bad”: http://nyr.kr/LVdeWu
