They never gave the full process, and other dangerous things were real, as is typical, even in like Burn Notice, they just didn’t give a full picture, but they didn’t lie.
Like the Mylar Balloons Mike releases that drift into the power lines and short out the wires, that’s real. That is when the cartel sends dudes to kill gus and mike kills them in one of the later seasons.
In a 2011 interview with NPR, the AMC show’s scientific advisor, organic chemist Donna Nelson, confirmed that creator Vince Gilligan took great pains to remix the process in order to avoid accidentally describing to millions of people how the drug is really made.
“That was actually one of the concerns of a lot of people, but Vince Gilligan has been very clever,” Nelson said. “You know, there are multiple ways to make meth. And so although his scenes are very accurate, he will sort of [combine] together parts of different syntheses, so that if you just simply followed the one synthesis as it’s presented, you wouldn’t come out with methamphetamine.”
They never gave the full process, and other dangerous things were real, as is typical, even in like Burn Notice, they just didn’t give a full picture, but they didn’t lie.
Like the Mylar Balloons Mike releases that drift into the power lines and short out the wires, that’s real. That is when the cartel sends dudes to kill gus and mike kills them in one of the later seasons.
https://www.tvline.com/2113742/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-meth-inaccuracy/l
Is from the creator’s mouth a good enough source