It didn't really click until this latest rewatch, but... Skyler got dealt such a shit hand

I know I have nothing new here to say (I'm sure whatever I say has been said a million times over), but I just wanted to talk about it with someone! Like many, on my first time through the show I just couldn't stand Skyler. I thought she was bitchy, uptight, and she was ruining our poor hero Walt's dream! As I watched the show more, I realized how awful Walt was, but I still didn't like Skyler. There was just something about her that got on my nerves.

But on this latest rewatch, it finally all clicked into place, and I just felt so sorry for her. Let's break down her life on the show:

• She gets unexpectedly pregnant with Holly while they're barely affording end's meet

• Walt gets diagnosed (which Skyler doesn't know yet) and he just starts wandering off. She doesn't know where he's going, and finds out that he's been lying to her about working at the car wash.

• She learns that Walt has cancer, which is of course incredibly upsetting

• She thinks that Elliott and Gretchen are paying for Walt's treatment

• Somewhere around here, she starts having suspicions about the second cell phone

• Skyler gets held and accused for shoplifting when she tries to return the bracelet that Marie gives her

• Walt disappears for a few days when he gets kidnapped by Tuco, of course causing her to go out of her mind

• Skyler gets her old accounting job back, and gets roped into cooking the books for Ted

• Walt misses Holly's birth

• Walt reveals that he did have a second cell phone when going under for surgery

• Skyler makes him move out because of the lies, and then learns that he makes meth

• Walter Jr. basically hates her and thinks that she's being a raging bitch

• Walt forces himself back into the house, Skyler calls the police on him, but they can't do anything

• Hank gets shot, and Skyler knows that Walt is involved with it somehow

• Knowing that she basically has no choice, she gets further involved in the details of Walt's money laundering

• Skyler comes up with the story about the gambling winnings to buy the car wash

• Walt basically tells Hank that he's Heisenberg when drunk at dinner, which of course stresses her out even more

• Walt also buys Jr. the Challenger, making her wonder how they can explain it to anyone

• She gets even further stressed when she finds out how much Walt makes, and has no idea how she's going to launder that much money

• Ted comes to her to say that the IRS is auditing him, which means that the IRS could come for her if they audit him

• Skyler gives Ted the money to pay off the IRS but he doesn't use it and doesn't pay them off

• Walt basically tells Skyler that he was the one that killed Gus, and she learns how easily Walt handles killing

That's only up through season 4, but it's just like... holy shit. When you really start and pay attention to it, she just gets bad hand after bad hand. Walt keeps spiraling down and he drags her down with him. It's so sad.

Submitted September 23, 2019 at 10:38PM by WhiteWolfofUtah https://ift.tt/2kCquvM