She is a stay-at-home mom, even though her son is more than capable of taking care of himself. She could have left him , but chose to stay despite all the red flags. She does all of the emotional labor in her marriage and needs to know what Walt is up to at all times. She didn't think much of him, even though he is one of the smartest chemists in the country. Skyler was actually really supportive of her drug lord of a husband.
She helped Walt legitimize his income through the car wash. She wanted to divorce him, but Walt wouldn't really let her do that, saying that they are happily married. Skyler had no reason not to go to the police the second she found out the truth about Walt, but she chose to be discrete instead.
She is great at keeping secrets. Skyler didn't let Walt have any autonomy over his own life, which was the most evident in season 1. Walt avoided telling her that he had cancer because he knew that the second he tells her, she will take over and start navigating the rest of his life for him, which is exactly what happened.
When Walt told her that he buys weed from Jesse, she went behind his back and threatened Jesse. Why wouldn't she let her dying year-old husband decide what he wants to do in his spare time? She was always up in Walt's business, which made her one of the least likable characters on Breaking Bad.
Skyler has some vicious tactics up her sleeve when interacting with her husband and sister, namely withholding affection and pointing fingers. She can be mean and cold-hearted, but never towards her son. They had a great relationship, based on mutual trust. She kept close tabs on him and was clearly over-protective at times, but Flynn clearly didn't mind.
Skyler is generally a great mom , even though she's done several things that say otherwise. Skyler is a real judge Judy: when the school's custodian Hugo got arrested for pot possession, she was outraged.
Unfortunately, her sound advice and reasonable stance on things didn't attract viewers — it repelled them, making Skyler the most hated character on Breaking Bad. That may even be a bit of an understatement. During Breaking Bad 's small-screen run, it often felt like Skyler White was the most hated television character ever , if not one of the most despised ones presented in any format. That fact was particularly surprising given that Breaking Bad was full of vile, self-serving characters worthy of hatred — with Cranston's meth kingpin Walt more than deserving the top spot on a list of terrible characters.
Still, much of Breaking Bad 's fanbase directed its wrath at Gunn's Skyler. Though Skyler did make a few moral missteps throughout the series like getting frisky with Christopher Cousins' Ted Beneke , she was hardly the shrill, nagging, "ball-and-chain" that people made her out to be.
The hate got very real very quickly, and in a interview with Entertainment Weekly , Gunn herself offered her own take on why the character was so reviled on the show. She told the publication she believed it stemmed mostly from "a combination of sexism, ideas about gender roles," and the structure of the series and its characters.
By the time Breaking Bad was airing its fifth and final season in , the Skyler hatred had gotten so bad that Gunn was moved to pen an op-ed in The New York Times that boldly claimed Skyler and, by association, the actress herself was at least in part the victim of gender-based double-standards.
Gunn further posited that the character "had become a kind of Rorschach test for society, a measure of our attitudes toward gender. Even Gunn openly admits there's probably a bit more to the Skyler hate than just basic gender politics. The actress, who netted two Supporting Actress Emmys for her work on Breaking Bad, added in her discussion with EW that the backlash was also part of "the brilliance of the construct of the show. The general gripe was this: Walt was out doing whatever had to be done to provide for his family, while all she did was sit at home, moan and get in his way, right?
Take Cersei Lannister popping up to swig wine and slay literally in an otherwise non-genre show, Game of Thrones. Or in Orange Is the New Black or Netflix western Godless — an ensemble antiheroine drama in which every character has the nuance and depth previously reserved for a male lead.
Yet having a problem with Skyler is not and never has been the preserve of Mens Rights misogynists holding forth on obscure subreddits. However, as her character undergoes a transformation, that initial moral black and white looks like hypocrisy rather than evolution.
While Skyler is far from the only widely disliked character on television — possessive, patronising Ross from Friends? Any show in which the male protagonist is as textured and nuanced as Don Draper, Dexter Morgan , Tony Soprano or Walter White is bound to make other characters look insipid and two-dimensional by comparison.
Yet the characterisation of Skyler goes beyond this.
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