While it’s true that it’s a TV show, one of the aspects that makes it interesting is that the many immoral and self serving actions taken by the two main characters are often inspired by real life controversies or cases of financial crime or political corruption. With an attempt at splitting them into the two camps of “corruption outside the system” and “corruption within the system” personified by the two feuding main characters.

I think a lot of it is how things are. Of course a lot of it is over the top for dramatic purposes and everything in the show happens to the same set of characters as is needed in a drama... But the fundamentals I think are spot on.

It's not a documentary?