Breaking Bad: Skyler White, "Nasty Woman"
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- We map Skyler White’s journey over the 5 seasons of Breaking Bad to answer the question -- why was Skyler so disliked? Support ScreenPrism on Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=7792695
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Angela Gunn should not be getting death threats. However, that happens to almost any big star or TH-camr on the internet, Boogie2988 gets those all the time. I never excused Walt for what he did, but what you are doing is just playing devils, advocate. Skyler is a terrible wife that could have easily consulted with Hank to trap Walt when she puts all the pieces together in season 3. She incites more drama when she decides to fuck her boss which muddy's the river even more. She argues about being morally correct and rational but that is not the case with the decisions she makes in the show. Most of her choices were based on her own emotional impulses that would benefit her most of the time. This is not a question of sexuality or gender.
I hate the bullshit political excuse card for the reason of not liking characters like Rey and Skyler White. The show sometimes pressures the viewer to accept her morality and her being a perfect victim but she is far from it! Holly and Walter Jr. are victims, not Skyler. She's an abettor and you should not try to rationalize either of them for the judgments they make in the show. I liked Mike, Jesse, Walter Jr., and at first Hank but he becomes a douchebag as the series goes on. Hell, there's a dinner scene where Walt was not around. Hank asks her why is she keeping Walt from the kids which she replies, "Its none of your business." That shows she is not restricting Walt she's allowing him in my eyes to walk over her. They are both great flawed characters but saying she's a victim is stupid in my opinion.
Great show!!! What an insight to a hated character
You should do thier son next
N/A H TH-camrs getting death threats for the content they create is totally different than an actress playing a role someone else has written and directed, getting death threats.
Even though you hate Skyler or not, I think we all agree that she singing Ted's birthday was the cringiest scene in the entire series.
Corina Blanco omg I wanted to skip that part
I did skip that part
Lmao i love saul
oh god don't remind me
I think the scene where Walt was hitting on Carmen was the cringiest scene.
Ted was the most unlikeable character in the entire series imo. When he was randomly given money, he bought a Mercedes, he literally had to be forced to pay his taxes, like what
he gave skylar some good D
@@elipav484 it's not good if she goes back to the guy with cancer
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The most unlikable person was Lydia
@@s.s9544 what an ass though
Honestly if someone hates Skylar even after finishing the whole show, congratulations to the creators. You actually managed to get a fictional character like Walt to manipulate your viewers too. 😂
Plenty do. Just read this comments page.
What if you hate skyler and Walt? Most BB characters are unlikeable
@@HatredInTheFlesh notice how many unlikable people try to paint Walt as likeable because of how hard they identify with him
Huge respect to Anna Gunn, but I despise skylar. She is the reason why Walt is the way he is. She is an awful wife before Walt broke bad, always nags and complains, dominates the relationship and emasculated Walt and made him feel weak and worthless for not providing. This is the problem, when you emasculate a man, you have to things, a depressed and semi-suicidal man, or someone dangerous as Walter white. While Walter is an awful person and a horrible human being, but skylar is not any better, she is just overall annoying and a cheater, smokes while pregnant and while those didn’t violate the war crimes like Walter did, her actions are far more offensive because it’s not expected for a woman to act that way, but for a man like Walter and his position with his wife and his overall life of being a loser for 51 years that has no power, it’s expected for Walt to have his ego inflated because he never had that level of power in his life. I hope this makes sense, and if you disagree, it’s fine. But overall, skylar is the worst type of woman and people like her are the reason why men are either depressed or become unhinged later
Walt is easily the most evil character in the show by the end. However just because he's messed up doesn't mean Skyler is an innocent victim.
She cheats, commits tax fraud for the guy she's sleeping with, helps launder drug money, is complicit in all of Walt's actions and honestly I don't think this video even pays attention to smoking whilst pregnant, which in itself is abhorrent.
I don't think it's fair to say Walt is the bad guy and everyone else is completely good. Marie is a hypocrite who claims morality yet she's a thief and a total gossip with no self control, and got her sister arrested over the tiara. Hank has some racist tendencies, belittles Walter quite a bit especially at first and covers up Marie's crimes despite being in law enforcement. He also assaults Jesse for what was essentially a prank call, though I do understand why that would piss him off. Not to mention Elliott and Gretchen who more or less screwed Walt over and then years later distanced themselves from him to save public face.
With the notable exception of Walt Jr every major character not involved directly in Walts empire all do shady and illegal/immoral things. And the show is trying to show the nuance that nobody in the story did the right thing.
Skyler isn’t always right. She ends up breaking bad herself. But she actually feels guilt over it. Walter kills people with his own hands, and he feels not only justified, but invigorated by it. In season 5, where she says she can’t brush it off like shit happens, the way Walt does? That’s probably the key difference between the two of them.
Skyler had never really made the conscious decision to Break Bad and was almost forced by the circumstances her husband put her through, the literal fear of jail and Walt's messy attempt to be a drug dealer. I feel like when Skyler actually stopped helping Walt is when she gained some agency as a character and did what she wanted. Unfortunately she was blamed for it
@@humanaveragebeing981 she didn't have to join a drug empire. Lets not act like she didn't want the money too
Walt cried when he made his first kill and after when he let Jessie's girl die. Skyler took pleasure screwing the car wash owner
@@thirtythree504 Are you really comparing killing someone and screwing over a car wash owner who disrespected her husband Walt. Like what?
@@thirtythree504 she also felt no shame in cheating on Walt
The part where she sang to Ted made me want to call Saul
S aul good man
@@kennethsalamanca5677 jumbo mcgull
@Messaoudi Youssef I skipped it as well.
@Messaoudi Youssef I wished skipping it had crossed my mind. I paused, cringed my asshole shut, played, paused again, took a deep breath, went outside for a smoke, came back in and hit play, decided to pause and save it for the next morning, finally got through it the next morning.
“i’ll send you to belize”
If an actor makes you feel something as intense as hate then they’ve done their job
Good point. Character doesn't have to be likeable to be compelling, yet we might dislike and "hate" characters not for how compelling they are but for other reasons.
Although, in this case, it's just because of a twisted section of the fan base.
True most of time, but the true here it's that the actrees fail yo show love or care for the family, she was allways agressive nd toxic, we never see Her as true mother or wife, she fails. I know it because i love that kind of Womans that hates you :3
Yeah, i hated jesse
It actually means the opposite, since by the later seasons the intention is clearly for people to feel emphathy for her. Ofcourse I don't believe the actress did a bad job, just commenting on how flawed that argument is. I honestly think that people that hate her should look at the story more seriously.
I heard people say they hated her from the beginning when she made her family eat veggie bacon, and talking to some of those people it's clear they missed the point of that detail being that she bought veggie bacon because its cheaper than regular bacon and they can barely afford to live in their very mediocre house, as the first episode shows Walter's discontent at his barely middle class lifestyle and how he clearly feels like he deserves to be living a "better" life, as in one where he has more material goods to satisfy him
That's not true. As a vegan, I can say, veggie bacon is much more expensive. Even though it souldn't be. I mean, how can a life cost less, than a plant, which doesn't suffer.
But I dislike Skyler too. Very much... 😄
lol no
@Carina_ loves_ cats veggie bacon is hella cheaper than regular bacon dude. Shit is always 4.99 at my local Walmart and the cheapest regular bacon is 6.49
@@outmywritemind1739 Then look at the weight.
its so ridiculous that people drew the line there too, they can forgive all of the fucked up and evil shit walter did but vegetarian bacon is going too far?
I don't think I hated Skyler when I watched the show the 1st time.
And rewatching now, I can see Walts biggest weakness is his pride.
Nah, shyler was the shittiest person
Walt did this to his family
@@myhonorwasloyalty no he's pathetic and he knows it.
@@myhonorwasloyalty so? Does it justify the action he took?
skyler stabbed walter with a knife
Walter: *Kills two people*
Audience: 😂
Skyler: Did you use the master card!
Audience: 😡
Audience: she is an abusive controlling bitch. 😤
Yeah he killed two precious angels while they were bathing the elderly
@@ReyBasilisko You prove @BangoBuck87 point. You're down playing murder.
Kalia Really? Maybe it’s because her husband lied about his life for two years, put his whole family in grave danger, compromised her relationship with her family and when he did have a clean slate to quit he never did because of his inflated ego. She’s a hero. But people are stupid and selfish and hating Skyler is part of the reasons relationships don’t last.
@@bryan_witha_whyy Uhm I was waiting for a genius like you to think I'm hating on Skyler. Welcome friend. Review the flow of the comments. If you still don't get it. I promise I'll explain it for you.
If you hate her, the actor did their job.
exseque I mean you clearly didn’t watch the video, either that or you have very poor listening comprehension
S Sh 1:27 idiot. Maybe think before you comment something like that.
Also it’s up to the viewer on how they perceive and it shows how narrow minded you are by randomly throwing around accusations like that.
exseque oh so Rose and Rey are superb actors now. Hmmm their characters were shit and many ppl hate them, and no they were not written to be like that, the opposite in fact. I also think it’s stupid to hate an actress for that but that doesn’t mean she was great. Look at other examples except Skyler and tell me all of them are good characters
Hagen first off you are meant to hate Skyler as said in the video as she is meant to pester Walter and prevent him from progressing of which she does an amazing job of. Whereas Rey is trying to make you like her, but has done such a poor job on the character development and how the movie played out made everyone hates any Star Wars episode after 6, but it’s more of Disney’s fault than it is the actors. Also I never said hate the actress I said the character... If I did mean the actress I would have used her real name.
exseque Well but the writers said they didn’t want Skyler to be a hated character, do some research mate not just watch one video. Yes she was supposed to be going against Walt but not to be hated by the audience but that’s exactly what u think it seems.
she was actually reasonable in most her actions and choices except for the times she gets overwhelmed psychologically. such an amazing character
Smoking while pregnant and joining a drug empire is reasonable?😂
@@thirtythree504it's almost like you didn't read the comment you're replying to
She never listen to anyone else even a person who is much more experienced then she is.
As how she got Walter in so much trouble for car wash just because she wanted to create a real story and she literaly anhilate Walt in any argument she doesn't try to understand walts position
@@thirtythree504 did you even watch the show
@@minky2k she forced herself into Walt business, suggest Walt kill Jesse, never supported Walt unless she was in control. Told him to move back in then claimed she was a hostage and instead of telling him to leave fake drowns then move the kids out and continue laundering his money instead of giving him the ultimatum the drugs or the family . Same ultimatum he gave her which caused her to Fuck Ted??
at first skyler annoyed me but after a bit i actually came to really like her, it kinda surprised me how many people hate her for something as dumb as not turning a blind eye to walter cooking meth and acting like nothing was going on. in my eyes shes one of the most human characters, not evil but not insanely morally correct either, she acts like someone in her position would. she actually ends up being a pretty smart character who covers walt's ass multiple times
I think it's more about her attitude from the very begining to the end (bar the last scene she has), to be precise, when we see the couple skyler and watler, we don't see a happy couple, we see a control freak of a wife with a submissive if not moody husband, and during the whole series, she becomes a boulder to "Heisenberg", and constantly reminds Walter of what he used to be. And ironically the only time I saw chemistry between these two, was during their last scene... I think the writter really wanted to portray a middle aged woman out of her depth, and they succeeded.
Indeed. And at times she was much smarter than Walt. She saves his a$$ on numerous occasions. She was portrayed as annoying and I think the writers felt like that had to write her that way to get us to empathize with the murdering drug lord that was Walter White. As we can see from "Better Call Saul" though, it wasn't necessary and there's a better way to write complex characters. It's interesting to see how people reacted to Skylar though and how completely skewed our violent and inherently patriarchal culture is: especially in America.
Yah, she ended up being one of my favourite characters on the entire show, along with Jesse Pinkman. I really admire her for what she did to protect her family and the unparalleled amount of love she had for Walt. Not to mention that she more often than not stands to reason. As far as her emotional moments go, I totally get them.
@@pegacorn13
Good lord... you're using this to cry about the "patriarchy."
She's a dumb fcker at every season wdym 😂
You guys are overthinking it. It was the veggie bacon
... for the first time, ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
She just wants to make sure he's gonna be around for more birthdays. They've come a long way with the veggie bacon.
hahahah yes!!!!
“We’re keeping our Cholesterol low...I guess.”
@Think Of A Mexican Name he's not retarded, on the show, or in real life...
In a show depicting the most evil, cold-blooded and sadistic criminals, a middle age white woman is the most hated and unlikeable character, lol.
And who's only trying to protect her family. Lydia was more unlikeable
Marie was the real imposter imo
@@mattfromswitchsports9679 marie did a lot for Hank after he ended up in the hospital. She seemed very shallow before then, but after seeing how much she cared about Hank her character gained a lot of depth. Skyler cared about her family which was her humanising characteristic for me.
Todd and Meth Damon seemed like they were either the least likeable or the least humane throughout the show. Even Mike, in the profession he was in, wasn't as inhumane as Meth Damon (I cannot for the life of me remember his real name). Though the wheelchair grandfather and the twins were a very close runner up for me as well.
Just rewatched some of the show and ironically Meth Damon's name was Todd. I meant to say Ted and Todd were the least likeable because of their lack of caring.
Some1 on 1 of these clips called Skyler a Karen, smh.
Just remember, if you hate the character, the actor did a great job
They're in their feelings in the comments, it's so weird
You know RJ Mitte isn’t disabled right? He had to fake cerebral palsy on top of pretending to be a snotty teenager. You’re lucky I’m not a twitter user, otherwise I’d call you ableist.
@@JakeKoenig what would you have done with the few lines he was given?
jeez. the dude was more handicapped by the writing than the palsy. have some respect and love for RJ
2 words.
Brie Larson
Then jar jar Binks did an AMAZING job
Skyler White is the most realistic character, I have ever seen.
Course she is lol
The sort of women who will steal 600k of your money to pay for her bit on the side Ted Benekes cooked books lol
@@TheNaturalHealthBlogger 600k of a meth lord
nah most humans are nicer and not dicators who should have to spend some prison time
@@xchi8040 Eh yeah youre point being what?
That Skylers fraudulent cooking of the books was going to mess it up for Walt too hahahah.
Shes a real hero isn't she, the way she was protecting the family with her cooking of Teds books lol
She was protecting her family by singing happy birthday to Ted Beneke
People are such idiots. Hating or even wanting to kill an actor or actress just because they hated they're fictional character. That level of sheer idiocy is genuinely frightening.
Like, on an instinctive level it makes sense. The reason we - as a collective - feel comfortable approaching celebrities is because we feel like we know them. We spend hours every week with, say, the friends on "Friends" and a relationship develops, albeit one-sided. That's kind of the point, that's the goal for the writers and actors: to get us to care.
It works on a subconscious level (or unconscious? I've never understood the difference; I know if I punch somebody in the head I knock them unconscious, not subconscious, but in the other usage it seems to me like both work).
But of course, yeah, it's kind of... depressing? Worrying? that people don't take a second to step back and realize that it isn't real.
You know i would actually agree with you if you used simple words. because you kinda sounded like a smartass.
Well, if you hate an actor because of a character then this actor is really really good
Yeah it’s retarded. I remember people sending death threats to Josh McDermit when Eugene betrayed Rick’s group in the walking dead
Litterally Nothing Seeing as you don't make any sense, I think your user name is fitting in tandem to such a useless comment.
I could never understand why people would transfer their hate of a character onto the actor or actress. If anything we should admire Anna Gunn for being able to evoke such strong emotions with her acting.
It's because she had absolutely no charisma. Vince Gilligan even said he NEVER intended for her character to be so hated. So, you're wrong.
And people who hate the actress is just a minority. You don’t have to get all emotional on it.
@@mrsx7944 wtf are you even saying?
@@ramennoodles8546 I made a typo. That was actually supposed to say "Gilligan never intended for her character to be LIKED".
Because people Is stupid
I always liked Skylar. My favorite overlooked moment of hers is when she’s trying to get Walt kicked out of the house, and the policeman says “Work with me here.” He’s all but openly inviting Skylar to lie and say Walt beat her, which will give him the excuse to haul Walt off in handcuffs. But she won’t do it; angry as she is at Walt, she won’t lie about him to get what she wants. You know Walt wouldn’t have hesitated to lie in her situation, but she’s a better person than he is . . . at least at that point.
And I think she fills the gender role of “mama bear” pretty well. Even in season 5, when she’s clearly terrified of Walt - with good reason - she won’t back down from him when it comes to keeping the kids safe. That’s what real courage is: doing what’s right even when you’re scared out of your mind.
the right thing would have been to turn him in or leave him (which she had a clear chance to do when he finally signed the divorce papers)
We should give Skyler a round of applause for not lying about her husband beating her? wtf kind of word do you live in.
@@qais3323 I live in a world where people lie to get what they want all the time.
@@HelotOnWheels so that makes it okay? I cannot believe I’m having a conversation where not lying about a crime is praised.
Skyler is a perfect portrayal of a Karen. Who's used to getting what she wants by bitching and manuplating people.
I remember in the second or third episode she barges into Jesse's home, basicly trasspassing and when Jesse gently touches her to move her out she screams don't touch me' making a scene. It's okay when she violates other's rights so causally but once her right is violated 'oh no, no, no how dare you' They're people like that in ral life and they make me sick to my stomach.
Honestly, I could understand why Skyler did what she did, her worry and curiosity. I’m pretty sure most of us would react the same way if we were in her position. That’s what I like about the show, it shows two different characters with their own points of view and still manages to make both believable. You understand why Walt is doing what he does and why Skyler does what she does
She legit smoked when she was pregnant☠️
@@GIick_ All except that lmao
@@dumlord1581 she’s still a horrible person
Her excuse was deplorable. "Fugitive state" what bullshit
@@dumlord1581 she gave 600k dollars to ted without even consulting walt
The hate on Skyler proves the writer is sooo good, we take Walt's side.
Actually, the writer himself said he’s confused by how hated Skyler is. He never wrote her to be hated
it proves misogyny
@Zoubeir Faouzi totally different characters . . . And I think the writers learned that after they got this unwanted backlash to skyler
I never hated skyler. Sure she was annoying in s1, but never too much. All my hate was to Marie. Till s4 I wanted Walt to win because he's the "protagonist" but s5 part 1 confirmed that I HATE Walt .
Whereas walt is the one who has done faaar more inhuman activities
I think Anna deserves equal praise and press elevation as Bryan and Aaron for her acting. under appreciated af
Lmbao. You're hilarious. The woman had one emotion and one face the entire series.
Charlotte Rawlins uh no? She had several. Season 4-5 just made her seem like she was angry and despondent. But she had many scenes where she had extreme emotion.
I don't think so
Good enough at acting to make a fan want to kill her. Can't argue with that.
Cheryl Rose she plays a good bitch
I think Anna Gunn deserves nothing but praise! She did an amazing job as Skyler, and if an actor can make the audience hate their character, they're doing their job right!
Yeah, but Anna Gunn said that she wanted to make syklar a "strong and independant" woman. And she turned her into a parody of those values. She succeeded at making skylar hateable, but i feel like this wasn't the intention. Hard to say tough if the script for Skylar was so bad or if Anna Gunn played her like that.
@@earlgrey2130have the two of you watched the video? 😅
I’ve watched the series at least 8 times.
Until seeing this, it never occurred to me that people would dislike Skyler.
Why ? Her part of the story, is that of one person just trying to get through life.
Just like all of us.
Probably because she's a massively annoying c_nt. If you didnt realize this, you might be just like her :)
Cheating on ur dying husband seems a good enough reason to me
@@chasejordan9295 oh yeah because you must know how you would react as a pregnant woman who just found out her husband is cooking meth and has killed people, right? Totally not okay to be annoying in a situation like this. Idiot...
@@chasejordan9295 Yeah, she should've just went along with her husbands insane meth empire, which threatened both her infant daughter and her family! But seriously though, maybe you should realize what the show's about before commenting. two words. They start with a T and an M.
@@paw9122 Didn't say she shoulda went with it, did I clown? rEAdiNg cOMpREheNSioN
I only hated Skylar when she bought a PT Cruiser for Walt Jr.
lol horrible car for anyone
I'm glad his Dad bought him a Challenger
Tru dat
Me too😂😂😂
.... and rightly so! But I gotta hand it to the producers... that car, like so many others on the show, was the perfect choice for that scenario.
I can understand disliking a character, but hating the actress that plays her.... That's just low. She was supposed to play a character for the audience to dislike. And she did a great job. So, why hate the actress for it?
Because toxic masculinity cannot abide a strong independent woman, and this goes as far as resenting any actress who dares to play one, projecting their feelings towards the character on the actress.
I did and still hate Doakes and Laguerta on Dexter. I don't hate the people who played them. I just hated how awful and hypocritical the characters were.
@@cathleenrocco4804 shut the fuck up, it is not about gender its about a bunch of trolls seeking attention.
Exactly
@@jtcontardo712 it's ok, Cathleen just couldn't wait for a comment like that to show up so she could display her OBVIOUS hatred for the same masculinity she secretly desires like the feminist hypocrite she is, but don't you DARE call it out or else you're a piece of shit woman-hating misogynist lmao
This was my opinion of Skylar throughout the series:
Season 1: neutral
Season 2-3: hated her
Season 4: neutral again
Season 5: sympathy
same, except I only hated her during some parts of season 2 and 3 especially her conversations with ted
How can we take sides with criminal and hate a woman who just want to protect her family?
The Breaking Bad is happen to us too
13:42 it looks like Skyler drops to her knees crying after Walt wastes the pizza
seriously unfunny lmao
I mean.... I would too, what a waste of good pizza
BOB News I didn’t say “seriously unfunny” , THAT IS THE USERNAME OF THE PERSON I WAS REPLYING TO
BOB News lol
@@celestegarcia923 what news?
I think she did a very realistic portrayal of how a wife of a someone who turns out to be a sociopathic serial killer might act
At the end maybe but she was a bitch even before he became a sociopath so I don't see that as justification
is it sarcasm or you speaking for real 💀
Wife or not is the lest important thing. The main issue is how she behaves
i wouldn’t say serial killer
@@6sideshexagon519 267, dead.
I recently rewatched the entire show and Skylar is my favourite character. She went from typical mom and housewife vibes to helping run a drug empire flawlessly laundering money and supporting Walt all the while protecting her family. She doesn't get enough credit. Still can't believe what a terrific actress Anna is.
bad take
@@Kinogotiate ratio
@@nick-wy7fg oh no a bunch of zoomer clowns on yt who never had a relationship with a real woman yet in life dont like my comment where i accuratly decried skylar as the worst wife on tv. What will i do.
@@Kinogotiate ratio
@@nick-wy7fg amazing very mature well thought out take.
I never hated her at all, I always find her character very realistic
You have to be a pretty pitiful soul to attack an actor/actress for a chatacter they portray! I mean wtf!?
It's either 13 year olds with no fucking concept of adult woman behavior or actual incels, both have the same emotional intelligence it seems.
@@GamerTheTurtle you missed the mark by a mile, there's a simpler explanation for that, some people have no concept of reality and often hate an actor/actress because the role they were playing was a particularly annoying/hated one, you can see this is the case with a character from GOT (don't remember the name) and the rapist guy from 13 Reasons Why, sure her role isn't as bad theirs, but many people didn't like her regardless
@BlackStar 458 Joffrey.
@@gaaraxnaru sucks cause if you actually look up the actor he's a nice guy, same with the guy who played Ramsay
BlackStar 458
Many Star Wars actors have gotten this kind of hate too just for playing unpopular characters.
I hated everyone but Hank. I even hated Hank at first until he started having panic attacks and I realized his macho attitude was just a front.
He got humbled
Marie was ok really, annoying at times but generally decent. Walt Jr was a good kid overall. Jesse was flawed and damaged, largely by Walt but he had a conscience
@@Forestgravy90 my thoughts exactly
Parramatta I feel like Marie was more than just decent, seeing as she was always there for Hank no matter the cost
R Deal sure she was but she also had a prima donna streak and a compulsion for robbing people's houses
Not quite sure how people hated her so much. She wasn't even all that much of a threat to Walt to begin with.
Im not sure about that.
She stole 600k of walts money to pay for her dirty bit on the side Teds misgivings lol
Enough to bleed even a kingpin like Walt dry who makes 7 million a year roughly haha
@@TheNaturalHealthBlogger she did not steal it. walter shared the money with her. and then forgave her for it. and she literally did it to disguise walt’s crimes.
@@cartiercat That must have been why Walter was in the crawl space screaming when he found out Skyler stole the escape money to pay for her and Ted's crimes lol
@@TheNaturalHealthBlogger he literally shared the location with the money with her and said it’s their money. of course he was expecting it to be there because he didn’t know it’d be gone so quick. did you watch the show?
@@cartiercat So that was why Walts screaming in the crawl space, wheres the money Skyler!!!???
Crying lol
Sounds like a man who had the knowledge 600 grand of his escape money that he now needed for his family was away to be spent on Ted's tax bill haha
I always had sympathy for skyler beacuse I wasn't sided with walt. When I heard that she was the most hated i always wondered why. I loved this it gave me a different pov
you are watching the show wrong. Walt is the protagonist.
@Kinogotiate there is no right or wrong way. Every will have a different take. I for one thought Walt was cool at first but he became impossible to root for and I just wanted him to die. I hated him.
@@Kinogotiate Walt is the most annoying character on the show, incessantly whining and throwing tantrums like a toddler.
@@sashatheelf thats not annoying thats intense, and captivating.
@@Kinogotiate wrong. I fucking hated Walt. He was my least liked character besides Tuco and Ted, because he was such an egomaniac and whiney little bitch.
Her character is a big part of BB. You find out your husband is cooking meth, what do you think your reaction would be? Her attitude may be irritating yet it keeps things more realistic.
She shouldn't have cheated on her husband, the emotional cheating began before she even suspected any criminal involvment
@Ryan Akwar then you make your children's life a living hell
Yeh she's in the right, doesn't make her any less irritating though, especially the facial expressions. Kudos to the actress she really did a great job
So you wouldn't leave?
i loved her reaction, i felt it was very realistic. esp in S2 when she first realized his lies and started becoming distant
The only one time I hated Skylar was when she encouraged Walt to kill Jesse.
Personally, I never really hated Skylar as much as I thought it was hilarious how many terrible decisions she makes. Her not telling the DEA about Walt the second she found out or when Walt refused to leave was what caused me to lose most of my sympathy for her.
@@trevordavis6830 to be fair she laundered money successfully, got her and Ted out of trouble, and got Brogdon to sell Walt the carwash at her price not his...
@@llarmstrong783 Oh don't get me wrong, I don't think she's completely incompetent. She's great at accounting and can sometimes come up with a successful plan. But Brogdon was one of her only plans that didn't completely backfire on her.
Her plan for getting rid of Walt without revealing his true nature backfired completely as Walt came back anyway and made the rest of her family think she was terrible person who was bullying Walt for no reason.
And while she did "succeed" at the goal of making Ted pay off the IRS, she not only got Ted horribly hospitalized and forever ruined that relationship, but she also endangered the rest of family since she just gave away the money Walt needed to protect them from Gus.
@@trevordavis6830 as skyler herself says, she's not as good at being bad as walt is. she doesn't have any of his 'magic'. she can be very intelligent at times, and other times she's just so scared of being caught she can't really think through her plans.
as for her not telling the dea about walt, i definitely was annoyed at her for that, but she was scared in that situation as well. she thought she was doing it for her family. and as saul tells us, there would've been a lot of consequences that would come with her turning in walt.
Until you realize she was the biggest problem.
Once Skyler decided not to divorce Walt, it was the point of no return. The divorce lawyer was the voice of reason, but Skyler broke bad by becoming Walt's enabler.
She suffers from the same phenomenon as Beck from You imo. They're both the love interests of narcissistic sociopaths who do terrible things. In regular life, you would condemn Walt and Joe and see Beck and Skylar as flawed but regular people. But from an entertainment perspective, we will root for the anti hero because it's a show and the horrendous acts they do make it worth watching. But when their love interest does something bad but not a serious crime, or is annoying and stands in the way of our hero, we will see them through the eyes as the latter and scrutinize them for flaws they have that are glaring and obvious but wouldn't make them so hated if we were coming from an unbiased approach
Naa In real life id still like Walt and hate skylar
@@jamesten9409 adolescence is sweet
@@jamesten9409 Walt isn't even a likable person in his nice-guy persona.
@@HuntingViolets he is very likeable, he does WHATEVER he has to do get by and if you get in his way he’ll do anything to remove you, I admire that too many weak snowflakes out in life now, they would never survive in times where you actually had to provide and diy everything for your family.
@@jamesten9409 no, he is manipulative and an egomaniac. Fuck Walt, I hate people who lie to my face.
Walt fucked up so hard when his ego made him reveal that Gail’s work was most likely copied. That’s what made Hank begin to pursue Gus, his pride was his own undoing.
Walt's pride was his own undoing from episode five of the first season when he didn't just accept Gretchen and Elliott's money. If he had, we wouldn't have enjoyed this amazing show, but it demonstrated even from the beginning that his own pride was more important than his family.
Pride is the root of all great mistakes
Kinda makes disappointed in Walt, right?
K Noelle Garcia Walt’s ego is also the only reason his kids have money and his wife’s boyfriend didn’t go to jail
he was also drunk when he said that
She's sympathetic and understandable while personally kinda unlikable.
Probably the most understandable character in the show.
Totally. I guess most people don't differentiate between being likable and being morally right.
@@gtd2712 I think that might be the point
Nobody likes the person in the I told you so position
@@gtd2712 Yeah!! Because they mix up Ethics with Morals as if they are the same thing...!!
She a bitch
@@xgamerboyx4851 You're a kid.
I love Breaking Bad, one of my favorite (if not THE favorite) TV shows of all time. I did not have this reaction to Skyler. I'm actually pretty shocked, especially at the intensity and vitriol. There are things Skyler does that I don't like, like her relationship with Ted, but I got it. And holy smokes, Walt is a monstrous asshole. Even before he's consumed by the dark side, he's kind of a tool. Very interesting. I'm sorry Anna Gunn had to go through that. People are weird.
Yeah she cheat on her cancer striken husband, then cooked the books for her bit on the side hunky lover, steals 600k of walts money that shes so against of course to cover her and her lovers mistake
Just lol
Walt is based
@@myhonorwasloyalty your iq is lower than 60
I never EVER understood the Skylar hate.... she was the only one who had the balls to stand up to Walt and call him out as a legitimate psychopath - one who was more than willing to hurt children and kill people in order to continue his empire. .
If you switch both the B's in Breaking Bad, you get Breaking Bad
Oh shit. 0)_(0
HOLY FUCK
Basically I'm Egg?! Bruhhh!! How the fuck did you even....?
impressive
Wrong. It spells Breaking Bad.
I LOVE how Skyler was MADE to be irritating to those who came to watch how an ordinary teacher becomes real badass cooking meth, our "true hero", only for realizing that he is the most vicious character in the entire series and that his life is just a result of his own choices.
@lal hmeltha chiang a the fuck?
Good take!
@lal hmeltha chiang a I think all the porn and the shit anime you watch has you turned into a pile of mush. Silly little virgin
The entire arc of the show was the descent of Walt from a desperate everyman with a unique twist, to a monster. The audience wasn't forewarned of Walt's descent, so of course he was a sympathetic character to begin with.
Skyler betraying him was slightly before he deserved it, which makes deservedly her a shit person. I was on her side closer to the end when he crossed beyond the pale, but she cooked Ted's books because she had the hots for him and she fucked him to stick it to Walt, but that was her justifying what she was already moving towards. Then she fucked Ted over when he stopped being convenient and she called muscle on to him when he went off script about the money - making her every bit in the same world as Walt. She knew Walt was a meth cook and she collaborated with him, so she gets no moral highground there, either.
Walt killed people and Walt became an unhinged, deluded narcissist, with the Heisenberg character always a pathetic conceit, but he was also in the firing line, so his ruthlessness at least has some grounding in necessity. In the end none of them was good. Even Hank was an asshole. His wife was a bitch. But both of them get rehabilitated in the last season - I didn't buy it.
Walt's loyalty to Jesse, who was a fuckup, never made any sense to me. Once he was in Fring's scope, I could see why he would want to ditch Gale for self-preservation, but I don't think he saw Fring as a threat at that stage. Jesse often revolted and often fucked things up by disobeying to spite him, so I don't believe there's any basis to say it was because he thought he controlled Jesse, either. It smacked to me of the script saying Jesse was in the show so Walt demanded it.
Walt was set for life and beyond with a single 3-month cook for Fring, so the fact he demanded Jesse as his assistant, when Jesse was the reason Fring rejected them in the first place, is not credible. Gale knew the lab and the gear. Jesse knew jack shit. The show depicts no mistrust of Fring at all at that time, so if Walt had reservations they didn't show them. Walt's frequent caustic criticisms of Jesse put the lie to any thought that he had paternal feelings for him - the "good night Jesse" said to Walt Jr is also not credible. There was some bullshit in the writing in this show, sadly.
Duh the show is called breaking bad
thought she was the most witty and fun character, she made me feel extreme emotions, and made me question my own ideas of moral. Thought she was a strong intelligent woman who made wrong choices at time but you cant help but empathize most of the time.
For the first 2 seasons Skylar did come across as a nagging shrew, people afterwards liked to say "well her husband is a murdering drug dealer!" but at the time she didn't know that. It's only after she finds out that she really undergoes some really interesting character development, most of what you've said about her being an antagonist to Walt can't happen when she's just the recipient of his constant lying. Honestly, as much as I love this show, I'd have maybe had her leave him earlier, end of season 1 even
That's probably too early, the show hadn't even settled into it's characters yet when Tuco's office was blown up. It could certainly have happened shortly after the """fugue state""" though.
The only character I truly hated was the dude who kept yelling "TUCKERRR!" in Season 4.
lmao
😂😂😂😂
I actually like the guy. He is one of those characters in movies and TV shows who play a minor part or show up in only one scene but become memorable for some reason, maybe because he yelled Tucker all the time😁
Captain Headsquish and Not A Skank are my most memorable one-off characters
Best comment off the year. I laughed for 5 minutes just now. And commented about it!
The best thing I did while watching this show was looking through everyone's POV. Skylar's and Jesse's hit me the most. One was already in Walt's life and the other got dragged into his life. But Both went through psychological torture from Walt and broken beyond repair at the end.
this!!! exactly this!!
That lady was never broken beyond repair. Walt never did anything that bad to her
@@NoOne-hx9ir this has got to be a joke
@@NoOne-hx9ir he tortured her pshysically and psychologically, lied to her, raped her, put her against her son, put her and the family in danger, got hank killed, kidnapped their daughter, kept her hostage, etc
@@milagroscabrera5304 youre high
Absolutely ridiculous.She did everything she could to keep her family together
By cheating and joining a crime empire is looking out for your family 😂
@@thirtythree504 She stood by her man.Walt's the one who put her in this situation to begin with
Exactly by cheating with Ted she was doing her best and cooking his books lol
The show has two main sets of characters: Highly relatable villains that are, due to their suffering and their tragicomedic roles, worth a lot of our sympathy, namely Mike, Saul, and Walt. -
And, "the Good Guys" , who are portrayed as stuffy , partly highly insufferable, packed with undesirable character traits, and lacking real personal "depth" , like Skyler and Hank. With Jesse being a category of his own. While it made absolute sense how Skyler acted; from accelerating Walt's change, to accomplice, to antagonist: Many did not enjoy how brusque, and indeed "Xanthippe -an" , she was from S1E1 onwards.
Yes the show makes evil look cool and good look boring and self-righteous. So Skyler in the pilot is distracted by ebay when giving Walt a handjob! She's dull, no passion, just a killjoy.
Skyler was definitely annoying at times, but I was more often furious on her behalf with Walt's constant gaslighting
Walter signed divorce papers and left the house after Skyler slept with her criminal boss who she helped to hide two times more amount of money than Walter earned at that time. Skyler didn't turn in divorce papers and munipulated Walter to come back to the family because she wanted his money
@@doriangray104 She isn't innocent for sure, she became greedy and manipulative too. But in the beginning, when she still didn't know anything, I really felt for her when she knew something was going on and everytime she begged Walt to tell the truth, he kept lying to her face.
@@Lily3071 agreed
@Anastasia why did hypocritical POC Skyler was cooking Ted's books long time before she knew that Walter is a criminal? What an excuse do you have for that?
And no, I didn't excuse Walter, I said what was going on with Skyler.
Hypocritical POC Skyler started to want Walter's money (even her lawyer called her out on it), sleeping with her criminal boss became boring so she munipulated Walter to come back to the family. That's it
@Anastasia 1) by not signing divorce papers she was compromising herself, by becoming an accomplice and initiator of loundering money she was compromising herself; the only right decision was to turn in signed by Walter divorce papers, but Skyler wanted Walter's money too much so she didn't do it) Also, she munipulated Walter by fake caring and worrying to stay in the family, but she didn't give a single crap about Walter, she told her lover and her lawyer that she is waiting on his cancer and death
2) hypocritical POC Skyler wasn't only cooking Ted's books, she became an accomplice to all Walter's crimes since the moment she didn't turn in signed by Walter divorce papers, she was initiator of multiple her crimes.
About her sleeping with her boss - she as always, just like throughout the whole show did everything for herself excusing everything by more pathetic excuses than Walter's excuses, shifting blame, playing victim card and sitting on her high horse. She wasn't honest and didn't come up to self-preservation even in the last episode unlike Walter.
Imagine your husband day in and day out lying through his teeth. Lying straight to your face and denying it every step of the way.. try being the likable wife then
@Джон Таргариен which part don't you understand exactly?
@Джон Таргариен lmao yea he told her half the truth because he worked himself into a corner and there was no other way out, and even then, SHE was the one that had to guess he was a drugdealer/cook. He never told her. He lied to her for months, trying to make her feel like she was the crazy one for not believing his lies.
She cheated on him because he wouldn't sign off on the divorce and it was the only way to get him to back off. The money she gave Ted was to protect their story and therefor their family. Walt had earned all the money he initially needed pretty early on by his own calculations, but insisted to keep going for his own pride and ego (and greed!)
@Джон Таргариен 1. The full caps and emoji's really don't do anything here..
2. True he did sign the papers, I stand corrected. He left the house, then broke back in and refused to leave even after her calling the cops on him. How did she manipulate him into coming back? Sleeping with Ted came after Walt refusing to leave them alone.
3. She didn't participate in Ted's fraud, she found out he commited the fraud and said she couldn't be a part of it. But her signature was already in the books so she had to lie to the IRS after already leaving the company, because they would be coming after her and Walt.
4. I'm surprised you keep calling Ted the criminal, for committing fraud to save his family's company, but not Walt for cooking meth and killing people. Oh and not to mention him (attempting to) raping his wife!
5. She gave the money to Ted to pay off the IRS because, again, they would be coming after her and Walt next. They weren't lovers anymore at this point.
I never said Skylar was the perfect wife and didn't do anything wrong, she did. But my original comment was about her not being able to play pleasant house wife anymore after all the lies on top of more lies. Her mistakes came áfter all the lies started.
@Джон Таргариен but the majority of people will always think of this man, who cooks and sells drugs, kills people, poisons little children, letting a woman choke on her own vomit without helping and ruining his whole family, as the hero. And think of the wife as a villain simply for being a bitch.
Done with this discussion now.
Have a nice day though
Джон Таргариен Джон Таргариен i agree that Skyler is def the most annoying person in the show. But bro are you really saying fraud (not physically hurting people) is a worse crime than making and dealing drugs, murder and poisoning people, as long as that person’s going to die?? So all terminally ill people should just turn to crime? Lol
Finding this after years. I never understood the hate she gets.
-Skyler wants good things (peace, family stability) but the way she goes about pursuing these goals makes it clear to me that she primarily is doing it for HERSELF. Prime example: how she gives Walt the cold shoulder until he agrees to go through with cancer treatment.
-I would have respected her if she had turned Walt in to the police, but she is very quickly seduced by money. Even before then, she is doing criminal activities with Ted.
-She is often quite nasty to her sister Marie (whom I grew to love). She insists that Marie apologize for stealing a $500 baby gift, though later she herself steals 80 million with Walt. I very much dislike her tone in her last conversation with Marie in the final episode.
-She was quick to suggest and insist on killing Jesse Pinkman - probably because she hates him and thinks he roped Walt into the trade, when the opposite is true. Trying to kill Jesse was not Walt’s idea.
-I feel sorry for her when she was assaulted, when her baby was stolen, and anytime she genuinely tried to stand up for what was right in an honest way. But anyone who either despises her, or gives her a pass, is being sexist. Skyler truly became a “nasty woman” and much of the hatred is deserved.
The writers also play with our perceptions and feelings toward Hank and Marie, who in the beginning seem like the human equivalents of nails on a chalkboard, selfish, crude, unethical, but by the end come across as thoroughly decent, caring, competent people, especially compared to the Whites.
great point thx!
Facts I thought Marie was a bitch and Hank was a dickhead but by the end of the show Walter’s family was way more dysfunctional
The moment the dynamics between Marie and Skyler were explored all my hate shifted from Skyler to Marie, because it was obvious that while both of them are holier-than-thou, nagging control freaks, Marie's the spoiled one while Skyler's far more grounded.
@@prod.schemeteam203 I never thought Hank was a dickhead, I mean he talked too much and acted like a hero all the time but other than that his heart was in the right place and he always looked out for his family including the Whites. He loved his nephew and all so other than being passionate about his job a lil too much Hank was the okayest character in all of the series!
@@moculinan1175 He was kind racist and was the first character to emmasculate Walter. He was even mean to Gomez, (But we later discover they have a really good relationship) Hank wasnt a good person, he just was the best one in comparison.
season 1: oh my god go away
season 5: oh my god run he is nuts
The Wandering One season 1: oh my god go away
Season 5: oh my god go away
Season 1: milf
Season 5: still milf
Jordan Red what the hell is a milf?
@@mariyatakeuchi9009 how old are you?
@@fbi1819 skyler said that in one point if I remember correct :D
I don't get it because I never hated her, and aside from his initial cancer diagnosis, I never once felt bad for Walt. Walt is a great character with a fascinating story, and I fucking hated him. He was an arrogant, manipulative, power hungry bastard. I wasn't sad when he died, I was satisfied. Kudos to Bryan Cranston for being such an amazing actor. But back to my point, Skyler was never the bad guy. She was a woman trying to keep her fucking family together. Even the example of her questioning Walter about the master card purchase, that might seem like nagging, but it's easy to accuse the wife of nagging while over looking the husband's careless actions that forced her to "nag" in the first place. Being responsible being framed as being an asshole, that's all that is.
I think one of Breaking Bads greatest accomplishments is that wether or not certain people like certain characters doesn't really matter. They are all well written and brilliantly preformed.
Woah fucking my boss will sure hold my family together!!! And also not letting my son see him without giving a reason!!! And vegan veggies!!! Fuck it's almost as if she is hated because of her incompetence and not because she is evil. Because evil is at least attractive
I personally prefer Better Call Saul to Breaking Bad and never saw Skyler as a bad person. I aleays understood that, no matter what, Walter was wrong in so many ways and she was worried about the risk this could offer her family, being pregnant and having a disabled kid.
I guess smoking while pregnant wasn't wrong
@@thirtythree504 and Walt poisoned a child, your point.
She was that worried about her family she cheated with ted, cooked his books then stole 600k of walts money to cover her and her lovers mistake
typical woman really lol, but we're meant to sympathize with her because walt is worse eventually in the end lol, when really he was a nice guy with cancer initially whilst shes sitting cheating with hunky ted lol
@@Megajmaster1000 and cheating?
@@Megajmaster1000 thats life your enemys must go but bettaying by cheating? She deserve punished like in islam
Not that Skyler doesn't have her own flaws, but she's literally a normal being and I would be mad if I found out my husband was cooking meth also
Gabbie, this is your husband.
I'm cooking meth.
dam11232 bold of u to assume she has a husband
Gabbi Durham even if he’s making one million a month ? Be real 😏
@Justin Bergman if you're actually not dumb and you watched the entire show, you'll know Walt did it for his family at the very first, but then he did it just for his egoistic ass only. Almost no one in Breaking Bad is innocent (except Brock, Walter Jr and Marie. Marie and Walt Jr are annoying af tho, I personally hate them, but to be fair Marie didn't deserve to lost her husband forever, she only deserved to be in jail because she steals) almost everyone deserved what they deserved, there's no saint in BB, they suffered from their own actions. Walt wanted to be the boss, the winner, the manipulater, no matter how many people he hurted. He didn't care about anyone, he only cared about themselves, he just tried to justify the things he did with the excuse of "I did it for my family", to try to get away from all the blames. He tried to competed with almost EVERYONE around him, because of his pride. Walt is actually the worst villain in the show, he manipulated everyone around him, even his viewers lol, and that's why Breaking Bad is a masterpiece.
@Justin Bergman Have you watched the whole thing? Boy, does he change! Just watch and see.
she is really annoying in the first half (like the climb out of my ass comment had me cheering), but the second half i have a lot more respect for her and then later sympathise with her. definitely at the end, similarly to how i feel about jesse. walt has completely annhilated both of their moralities, hopes and spirits
The problem is that late in the show, Walter has gone from a sympathetic character to a monster akin to the other villains of the show. At one point he's even willing to kill Jesse, a man he has protected and loved like a son for multiple seasons, to save himself.
I mean I say it's a "problem" but it's really not. That's kind of how you should view Walter. He got so far deep into the meth business that he had chipped off so many pieces of his soul along the way and made it difficult for the audience to continue supporting him. Up until that finale, of course, but part of that was about seeing Jesse rescued and happy (well, more or less).
you put it in the best way possible. my opinion completely!!
Agreeee
Even though I totally saw where she was coming from and in real life most people would react like her at the first half of the series but I still was annoyed. Second half though her character really flourished and I really liked her.
Skylar is a bad person. The way she treated Ted and the fact she wllingly accept to help Walt laudering his money is pretty damn immoral.
While skylar wasn't the most lovable character and not the best wife (before and after the Diagnosis) I wouldn't call her nasty. Imagine if your spouse or significant other all of a sudden distanced themselves from u, lied to u nonstop (she could tell), then find out he's a drug dealer, then find out he's a ruthless kingpin that kills people. Not sure how I'd act, but it wouldn't be my 'best self' that's for sure.
Fun fact: something that really surprised the creator Vince Gilligan was how the audience reacted to 2 of the characters 1 was hiw they were still on walt's side all the way to the end, and how much they hated skylar. He didn't expect either
Walter didn't assault Skyler in that scene. She held a knife to him and slashed his hand, it was only then Walter made a move to get the knife out of her hand. That's not ASSAULT, that's very accurate portrayel of self defanse.
He did a good job of sexually assaulting her though. What a stand up guy who's only acting in self defense......
Yeah I was really confused when Walter Jr. sided with his mom. To be fair, they all thought he killed Hank. She pulled the knife lol.
I never hated her. I saw where she went wrong, but she was punished with intense psychological torture. I felt sorry for her at the end. If I knew my husband thought nothing of killing those who threatened him, I'd be terrified too.
You either survive or you don’t.If it comes to a you or him situation it’s understandable but we can’t understand that because we never experienced it
@@bobbythegoat5535 u obviously didnt even watch the vid
@Tundra Mantra there is tax fraud, then there is poisoning hundreds of thousands of people and murdering those who get in your way. Ever seen a 12 year old running around on meth? Ain't pretty.
same
Let's not forget that she casually floated the idea of murdering Jesse in cold blood because "we've come this far, why stop now?" She may have been trapped in the beginning but by the end she was 100% a willing participant who was desperately clinging to whatever victimhood status she thought that might afford her even though it was no longer the case. And that's why I can't stand her. She never took responsibility for her own role. She was always poised to play the innocent housewife at the drop of a hat, gladly raking in the money with one hand while wagging her finger with the other. Walter endured coercion from far more powerful people but never took it as an excuse to put himself on a moral pedestal. He knew what he was and owned it.
the scene where Walt kidnaps holly and Skyler runs into the street was some of her best acting ever.
You can't kidnap your own child
@@Nelcomarproductions yes you can?
are you stupid?
@@omnical6135 nope
@@Nelcomarproductions
you CAN kidnap your own child, the same way you can kidnap your wife
you're a dumbass
@@omnical6135 lol, your funny
I don't why people should hate her. She literally dealt with the truth more than the average wife. She is a perfect character
I didn't even know up until recently that people hated her, idek, I was always able to empathise with her and how much Wald dragged her (and other's) into.
She is an amazing actress. Skyler was performed so, so well.
she was terrible and is terrible in everything she has been in.
Good Actress,Bad character.
@@ATomRileyA bruh you cannot watch Ozymandias and tell me that was a bad performance.
Wow Flynn takes it easy, She's the crutch that props up your entire existence @@ATomRileyA
@@ATomRileyA if a character can make you so infuriated, then the actress has done a pretty damned good job.
The most hated character is definitely Todd 😭
sam sai sane fuck Todd.
Nah I actually liked him. What he did to that kid with the motorcycle, though tragic, was kinda reasonable, since the kid saw them and could turn them in to the police. And also he seemed really kind to me. I think he was just doing his job. Like before he killed andrea he says "nothing personal". And also he is the reason that jesse survived Todds uncle by pushing the date of his death multiple times. (Yes i know he did it to learn his formula). And he also gave jesse more food than he was supposed to when jesse worked hard. So in my books Todd was a positive character who was controlled by his idiot uncle.
almightypaca Not only is he a total piece of shit in BB have you even seen him in El Camino? He’s the worst
almightypaca Jesus H Christ, he was a neo nazi
omg. i think every one is right for hating todd but I kinda fell in love with him lol
It’s because of how she treats Walt long before she gets any indication of the depravity his live had descended into, right from the get go she has no respect for him, punished him for things she couldn’t even identify, and had very little sympathy for the complications of his illness. Later on her behavior makes more sense but I think they made her such a bitch in the first 2 seasons to pile onto Walt’s resentment and feeling that he had been cheated out of greatness. It should be said though that this is just evidence for how amazing Anna Gunn is as an actor and she shouldn’t be criticized for doing such a good job making everyone hate her character. Also the half assed hand job from the first episode rubbed any male viewer the wrong way, it’s just an exemplification of how insignificant Walt’s happiness is to Skyler.
She has had her good and bad moments in the show just like every character. She became one of my favorite characters in the final season
Breaking bad is an incredible show in the sense that it throws the dichotomy of "good and bad" completely on its ass.
It makes you cheer for a *meth kingpin* while sneering at people like a concerned wife who in a real life situation like this would absolutely be the voice of reason.
Anna did an amazing job as this character
If an actor makes you feel something as intense as hate then they’ve done their job
That's why the notion that she's morally righteous doesn't matter. We know, very early on, that Walt is sliding into darkness and becoming the bad guy. For me, almost instantly, I gave up on the morality.
I took criminal justice in university, and I actively cheered for a meth kingpin to kill cops because I was invested in his story. If you go into this show holding good and evil close to your heart, you're gonna have a bad time.
@@bunkbeds3001 dude he was a kingpin for his family
It was their goal and they did it really well,tought when he watched jane died you can tell he really lost his morality
i believe that would be the case for skyler and symphatized with her had she not flirted and happy birthday'd ted way before she even knew what walt was doing
First time I watched BB I thought Skyler was reacting as a normal person would to their spouse doing shady things behind their back.
Never got why people hated on her so bad.
vipertact Same! I went in knowing she was disliked and was waiting for that feeling towards her. It never came..
She cheated on her husband
She spent over 600k of Walt's money without asking which stopped them from disappearing and being safe
She likes veggie bacon
Jan Michael Vincent
Most of that happened way down the line after she realized what he does. She used Walts 600k to save Ted because the IRS would have gone after Ted then after her.
And she cheated because their relationship crumbled, they had huge trust issues.
Veggie Bacon was in episode 1. I guess I'm not a bacon zealot.
Exactly
Thank you!!! I thought she was a very realistically-written character. I liked her
Honestly about halfway into the first season I thought she was the most reasonable character, and then when she went through her villain arc, I thought it was really cool because she was calculating and egoless, a lot like Gus
Shes a bltch you femboy
Skyler was written to be disliked immediately (distracted birthday hand job). Walt started the series immensely sympathetic in his downtrodden demeanor and proceeded to devolve into what he became, which wasn't a likeable person. I didn't like Skyler because I wasn't supposed to. But I thought the hand job was stupid and unrealistic enough that I basically ignored it in my assessment of Skyler (she didn't act that horridly the rest of the show) and attributed it to Vince Gilligan's weird depictions of women. My favorite female character in BB was Jane (who was a mess but a sweet mess, and I would have watched that character in anything). Skyler was written to be disliked. She was not written to be hated. She was a more complex character than that who grew along with the series and was a worthy adversary to Walt (and sometimes partner) after he brought her family into danger. Though they both were stupid at times throughout the series and were never particularly likeable.
finally a sensible comment
I think at her core, Skyler is a decent person (not good, but decent), in a bad person's story. And honestly Skyler being unlikable to most people kinda shows how ingenious this show is. It gets us to root for a bad person and hate a decent person.
Well, she’s definitely a domineering and manipulative person, just not on the same level as Walt.
No not the show. You decided to. Take some responsibility.
A “decent” person? Lmao you mean a snitch? What kind of wife would rat out and snitch out their own husband. She’s trash;
But this kind of depends on how you define good and bad. I think Walt was very good at the beginning. Finally taking action to get what he and his family deserved. Being a real authentic person. A rebel. Skyler not being supportive of this poor man who got pushed around all his life made everyone hate her. Which is the way I felt. But of course everything changed in the last seasons. The show is all about the change from good to bad imo and the whole grey areas in between :)
@@jamespratt7627 but she didn’t snitch on him wtf are you talking about
You gotta admit, Anna Gunn is an amazing actress. She made us hate her character so much that she’s getting death threats
TechnicallyToxicity damn shame how people can’t separate reality from a tv show
Yeah people are dumb asses, I mean I hate Skylar, but if anything makes me love Anna Gunn, she did her job perfect, she's a great actress, it's not her fault the writers made the character so annoying. As an example in the Arrow TV Show I hated Laurel she was one of the most annoying characters ever, but I still love Katie Cassidy the actress that plays her, because she was awesome in other things I've seen her in Harper's Island and Supernatural being the 2 shows she's in I can think of off the top of my head. Just sometimes great Actress play really awful characters
"Waspy Bitch" is just kinda the thing she does best. Her character on Deadwood is wild west Skylar, and you can 100% believe that she's her ancestor. She's such a great actress.
Same thing happened with Lena Headey in game of thrones
You gotta hand it to Ass Hats like you. Hating a woman for being talented actress and a wife for being strong minded and capable.
Huh. As someone who binged the entire show from start to finish only now, and didn’t catch any of that cultural discussion at the time, I also seemed to have completely missed out on this apparently intended annoyance. I thought the character was really well written and realistic and so well portrayed, just like the majority of the characters on the show.
I never hated Skyler, I actually liked since the begening
She cheated on her criminal husband with her criminal boss. U left that part out
Is cheating that unforgivable can she not be forgivin.
@@armonquezada212 actually yes, cheating is unforgivable
Martin Ditz well i guess we have different beliefs i take it forgivness isnt for you then
@@blastimbre they weren't in a relationship
She separated from him but Walt REFUSED to leave
When we're teens, we idolize Walt. When we're adults, we idolize Skyler. When we're elders, we idolize the simple joy of breakfast.
Which makes you hate skylar because of that damn veggie bacon
Nah we idolize Mike.
"When we're elders, we idolize the simple joy of breakfast". In other words, Walt jr?
I idolize real bacon.
@@kalijanecooper4514 That was the joke, yes :3.
Throughout the whole series I almost never sided against Skyler. One of the only times I did was in season 1 when she held an "intervention" for Walt, telling everybody to just say exactly what's on their minds, and then getting mad at Marie when she backs Walt's decision not to get treatment. Stuff like killing Krazy 8 and trying to poison Tuco, hell even blowing up Ken's car, I think are justified within the boundaries of the show, but how can you begrudge Skyler for her reactions to Walt lying about everything all the time, or divorcing him, or wanting him out of her life?
She fxcked ted when her man was dying. A lot of people don’t think thats very likable. Also as a character, she’s just exhausting. Almost every scene of her is her being angry, irritated, petty, paranoid etc. She’s a very dislikable character imo
@@merengue7139 but you're completely ignoring Walt's behavior at the same time.
@@sordidspectacle7393 well this video and topic is about skyler and her likability? And even if Walt did her wrong, wouldnt justify her doing him wrong. If she goes for revenge tactics, I even like her less. I do think tho that indeed Walt is a very selfcentered man. In his defence tho; he did have cancer and thought he was dying which is an extremely confronting thing to experience. But he surely had his flaws as well
I believe truly that this long amazing story tackles so many points and issues. The complexity in the characters makes it even better.
Skyler is far more sympathetic than Walt, it’s just that Breaking Bad is shown through Walter’s eyes. It’s crazy that people went after Anna though- she is incredibly talented, and also very sweet and kind
I mean, the part I hate the most is when the "intervention" doesn't go her way she throws a tantrum.
For a long time, she makes Walts cancer situation about her and it's understandble she's still loves walt and doesn't want him to die and not see his daughter grow up but she doesn't ever try to see walt's side of the situation and his pragmatic mind set.
I think she becomes more sympathetic until she fucks Ted.
She's a naunced character for sure, and a flawed one but I don't think hate is neccesary.
I think the #1 reason people didn't like Skylar in the show was because her character literally is what's called a "threshold guardian" in literary terms. They are there to basically get in the way of the "protagonist" from progressing, and because she was constantly a thorn in the side of the character we knew BEST Walter White, people started to hate her. We wanted to enjoy Walt's success to the fullest, and she was constantly there to make it seem bad.
But you have to look at it from her standpoint, like what IF this really was happening to a mother of a handicapped kid with a young infant daughter on the way and her husband suddenly uncompromisingly wishes to enter a life of crime. Walter in doing that put his entire family in jeopardy they would never have been in if he hadn't done that.
The first time I watched the show I hated Skylar. The second and every other time since then that I've seen it, I hated Walt.
I didn't root for WW once in the show, nor did I hate Skylar. By the end of the show I actually enjoyed her character as I understood her actions and motivations. Walter on the hand, I lost all hope for him having redeeming qualities after he decided to get back into the meth cooking business due to nothing but hubris.
@@slaughterhome Yeah it's interesting, too, because there's a few times I think he genuinely wanted to get out and realized he was in over his head. Very few, but they were there, the problem is as circumstances would have it he was always unable to. The main one that comes to mind is when he realized that Gus was making moves that would basically put him and his entire family in danger so he wanted to do the "disappearing act" with the guy for $500k total when he thought he had about $7-800 thousand, but of course Skylar had to give that money to Ted so as not to bring any unwanted attention onto them from that angle.
Plus, she was finally beginning to believe Walt when he told her "there is no danger, it's actually pretty legitimate even though it's illegitimate money" but Walt in the back of his mind I think always knew that his ego would never allow him to be someone else's employee. By the time the show ends he's not just confident in his ability to be successful in this business, he's cocky. When that whole thing happened with Gus, Walt in the crawlspace with the famous maniacal laughter, it's one of the most brilliant sequences in the show because you can follow Walt emotionally the entire time.
He went from desperately looking for the money so they could skip town in time and start living new lives only to realize the money was gone. That was no longer an option. At that moment, Walt realized he HAD to kill Gus, so he fully gives himself to the demon that was Heisenberg in that moment. He had to go into Heisenberg mode a few times just to survive the mania that was being a drug kingpin, but in that moment I believe he fully gave himself to that evil entity, if we can call it that. It saved them and allowed him to finally become the boss, but by that point Walt as Skylar and everyone knew him their entire lives was finally, well and truly gone. And he wanted more, more more.
Excellent explanation And not so educated terms like yoursthat's pretty much what I put in my reply.. The first time I hated her very soul The second time I was like well no wonder... It's funny Walker became a complete ass the second time I watched it 😂
@@fatface9191 Yes I think the first time I was just excited to see how far Walt could get but then the second and every other time... I guess it doesn't help that I already know where the show is going. I know exactly how far he'll fall, I know what lies he'll tell and when, and I will also know that he's not just doing it to make money for his family anymore by the end. He's just doing it because he enjoys it by the very end. Of course in doing that, in choosing a dangerous lifestyle he basically took his family hostage at the same time and if this was real life he'd not have been able to take out the entire cartel by himself. His family would never, in theory, have been safe. That's the #1 flaw with that show, they made it seem like there's only two cartels operating out of Mexico. There's dozens, in real life, and they're way more vicious than anything we ever saw depicted in the show (and that's saying something. We did see them do some pretty cold blooded stuff)
I think people hated Skyler (at least I did) because she is a hypocrite not just normal kind, but one that is self-righteous and preachy, worst kind of hypocrite . Despite this video making poor attempt to refute that claim with that she was just victim of the circumstances, that's not refutation of hypocrisy, that's mere external justification for action that were hypocrisy on character part. In fact her motives for what she did aiding Walt are near identical, difference was that Walt wasn't really preachy and self-righteousness and as such wasn't revived as negatively. Her motives were economical convenience and hiding behind well being of the family. Yet video attempts to paint her as victim (figures with gynocetrism of feminism) that was forced to do what she did, she really wasn't just like Walt wasn't, it was simply matter of convenience that she decided to make such choice. Choices she chided others for making.
So while Walter White did more horrible stuff than she did, he at least wasn't preachy and self-righteous claiming to have moral high ground and as such not as annoying as she was.
Am I the only one who never thought Skylar was an annoying character? Besides from Jesse, she was the most sympathetic character to me. I mean, how would you act when your husband suddenly changes personality and suspiciously brings in thousands of dollars, all while pregnant? I also really appreciated that while she was Walt’s hostage, she still put up a good fight with her wits and ability to see through his lies
I too felt sympathy for her. I just didn’t like how she was smoking when she was pregnant.
Had I been in season one, Skylar's overbearing nagging and overdomineering personality would've just made me want to die sooner. Even when Walt found out she had cancer, Skylar immediately made it about her. Want didn't want to go through chemo, so Skylar blindsided him with a invention because it's what she wanted and then when Hank and Marie didn't side with her she immediately flipped on them. Walt had his flaws but Skylar wasn't this sympathetic victim either
God damnit your right, your fucking right. Its crazy i never really understood why i disliked her so much. But she really was doing the best she could, with what she had.....
She just reminded me of "can I see your manager?" mom.
Yeah she's def a Karen
That mental archetype is exactly what they were playing off of. Makes it harder to admit that she’s obviously been right from the start
she's such a karen, and she does have good reason to be mad about walter being a murderer
but she goes about it such the wrong way, she's so bitchy about everything and she thinks walt's lying with no proof all the time
Never hated her, never was annoyed by her (the birthday scene may be the only exception).
She was way too smart for all the shit and all the excuses Walter made. And she had a very good feeling of what was going on right from the beginning.
If beeing smart and not being fooled easily is a reason to be "annoying" in a relationship...then we have to talk about our ideas of relationship.
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you're right. But at the end of the day, Walter is making millions. While all skyler does is bitch, and bitch, and bitch. She never put herself in Walter's shoes, and when she tried to launder his money, she ended up fucking it all up. Maybe she should've just "climed out of his ass". If you were never annoyed by her, not even once, you're straight up just lying to be the difference of opinion.
She's not smart at all LMFAO.
You can say this to cope with the fact that she is in fact an insanely hateable as a character, I could go into everything from the way she acts, speaks to her body language, however one thing stands out from the rest, everything she does doesnt come close to when she told walt to his face that she is waiting for the day that his cancer comes back
Things haven't changed too much since. A lot of people got pissed at the Boys when they discovered that Homelander was the villain the whole time.
Funny how you forgot to mention that she CHEATED on her husband TWICE+Without asking for his permission she took his money and gave it to the man she had an affair with,not to mention that Tom was breaking the law as well,she’s just an overall evil witch
When you strip away all the plot details, the biggest reason fan hate for Skyler was so strong was that her criticism of Walt was inherently CORRECT
And you can say the same about Skyler. Walt was angry at her for sleeping with Ted, and trying to break up the family. The criticism for that would be correct. The way I see it, both "broke bad", by becoming poorer versions of their former selves. They're both unlikable.
Transfiguration Except every bad thing she did from cheating to money laundering was because Walt put her in the position where she had no other choice.
+Yuri, "no other choice"? They even showed us she had many opportunities and choices to do the right thing, by either turning Walt in(multiple times), or running to a new State with the kids. Hell, Walt finally agreed to a divorce, signed the papers, and she never turned them in to be finalized. She decided that she wanted to stick around, and have sex with Ted, or lie about Ted's accounting finances to authorities, and lie about Walt's money to the family, or launder money through a car wash, etc. She did all those things, cause she felt they were the right thing to do for the family....which is the EXACT same thing Walt did by getting into the drug business. He thought it was the right thing to do for his family. Two wrongs don't make a right. Again, both were in the wrong, and both broke bad.
Transfiguration but again as said by Walter White in the last Episode "I did it because i liked it, i was good at it", he did it for his family was BS whoch he kept on feeding himself
Transfiguration You’re overlooking the fact that she never would be in this position in the first place if it weren’t for Walt’s actions. If she turns Walt in everyone else (her, the kids, Hank, Marie) go down with him. Ted did the same thing to her. They both set her up in situations where she had nothing but bad choices. Ted guilt trips her into covering his tax evasion and then drags her into a situation where the only thing she can do is go along with the program. Walt did the same thing but was a thousand times worse. She only slept with Ted in the hope Walt would get pissed off enough to leave her. Is she a saint? No, but she’s genuinely doing it in an effort to help her family. The other two narcissists claim they are doing it for the benefit of others but they are rationalizing their selfish actions. At least Walt finally admits it in the end.
watching breaking bad a second time, i can only think how great of an actress she is
Sorry, but...FU**CK that wh**ore 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢 disgusting
Broseppi Carnalizmo You do know the actress is not actually Skyler right...
@@brettjohnson536 yes, of course. I do live in reality. She's a great actress to make fans feel impassioned one way or another. Still....fuck that bitch😁
She is a great actress to have to stand doing all that much boring character... She must hate Skyler as well 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Broseppi Carnalizmo How was Sklyer bitch though? The worst thing she did in the whole series was the Beneke thing. Other than that she mostly tries to protect her family from a situation Walt put her in. Not the most interesting character I’ll grant you but still...
Walter didn't assault Skylar!!! He defended himself when SHE pulled a knife on him and cut him!!!!
are u forgetting about the kitchen scene besides that? 😂
@@hectoriul6135- Well that was way way earlier than that and he stopped and never did it again. She didn't mind it when it was in the bedroom.
shame she didn’t get to kill him. 😪
the line "...i can't even keep you out of my bed ! " gives me creeps every time .
I never felt the skyler hate. I got that she was a controlling milktoast bore but so was Walt. She genuinely loved Walt and for all she know they had a happy family. She never did anything do deserve harm and yet she comes out with her entire life destroyed.
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And I never really felt she was timid or weak. In fact, quite the opposite, she was too controlling. It isn't until the truth starts getting out that Walter really starts to walk all over her and perhaps justifiably, because the man had become a hardened criminal by then and she had reason to at least step on eggshells until she knew more.
At that point, I believe it’s both of their faults, it takes two to make a marriage, two to make a divorce, Walt definitely fucked up more, but we pulled a knife, cheated, the worst thing: VEGGIE BACON! She did more things on top, and Walt DID kill people, but he wouldn’t cross the bacon line.
@Krista Star It's not really about fault, no one can deny Walter is the root cause of his family's suffering. He went down that path.
It really just comes down to likability and Skyler just isn't a likable person. Before and after Walt's transformation, her personality isn't the kind that draws in others.
She was definitely naggy at times, but that happens in the midst of a normal marriage. It’s annoying, but not hate-worthy.
I think a lot of the hate came from either unmarried guys or guys that, like the video alluded to, feel insecure about their masculinity when they see Skylar exude strength through her words or actions.
That’s all speculation but there a hint of truth in there somewhere.
@Axl Dave Of course it's mysogyny. When a wife is upset about something it's deemed "nagging and constantly disapproving" instead of valid concerns.
I honestly found myself being more frustrated with Walters lies despite being given an opportunity to stop cooking despite already having a fortune.
Yeah bro. Its like just sell the metholinol, get your 5 million each and then jesse, walt and mike live happy and boom end.
@@0subsWith0vidsChallenge but they gotta keep the show going huh...
@@tamisbraaf5591 yeah but at that point he was doing it for himself so he could keep feeding his ego
@@0subsWith0vidsChallenge ur right about that
@@0subsWith0vidsChallenge don't see anything wrong with that. Especially considering his past w grey matter. Why would he again settle for less, let him get ripped off when he can have the whole cake?
season 3 Skylar is really interesting and i think here we get to see her similarity with walt, that is the justification of her actions as best for the family, she holds an ideal in her mind about what being a good mother and wife means and wants to uphold that for herself and the community. although walt presented her with no really good choice there I think her final desicion says a lot about what she values most. walt jr is also a big factor in that desicion because she wants to protect walt jr's self image by sheilding him from knowing the shady side to walt