I don't watch Weeds or Breaking Bad, but the theory holds that they're consensual type crimes (oh! Hung and Diary of a Call Girl or whatever also count in this category).

Breaking Bad is a lot closer to the Sopranos, morally and ethically. The main character would really like to justify his wrongdoing (more so than Tony Soprano, probably) but he really can't.

Oh Christ, I hope it's resolved peacefully. I have a ton of colleages in that building.

I watched the first season of Weeds, and it didn't grab me.

Well ... then ....

Fine.

The main character would really like to justify his wrongdoing (more so than Tony Soprano, probably) but he really can't.

Tell me more. I watched enough of the Sopranos to know they victimised innocents, but I don't know that much about Breaking Bad. Do you know enough to compare it to Weeds?

I hope so too, Jessica. Hopefully your colleagues were evacuated.

The news reports I'm reading now say the immediate area was evacuated, but not the Discovery building itself.

I just now saw the local story, and yeah. People seem to be holed up in offices.

I watched Weeds for a while. I don't know if it's a good comparison for Breaking Bad, other than they both have to do with illegal drug distribution.

I haven't watched the last half of the most recent season, yet, but I'd say the main theme of Breaking Bad is the journey from exploring this whole meth cooking thing as sort of a reasonable response of the main character to a truly terrible situation to the growing realization that all those choices he made that kept getting him deeper (into the underworld and into his own darkness) were not really things he was forced to, but options he preferred. It's dark dark dark and kind of harrowing (which is why I haven't finished watching) but really really good.

Yikes on the hostage situation! I hope that ends up okay for everyone, somehow.

The alert I got said the roads were closed down around the building.