Breaking Bad isn't only critically acclaimed; it's also pretty accurate:
Many viewers were repulsed when Walt and Pinkman used acid to melt a body in an early episode, but this is such a common disposal technique in Mexico today that it has acquired a nickname—the guiso, or "stew." … 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.
The Dish 