Skyler is an extremely underrated character.

All I see on the internet is everyone talking about how intensely they hate Skyler, and it infuriates me. She did two things that made me angry. 1. She smoked while pregnant 2. She helped Ted embezzle the company. Other than that, many of her actions made sense to me.

In the first two seasons, she is constantly angry at Walt because all he does is lie to her. I hate how people just expect her to be a compliant housewife who spends all day in the kitchen. She spent over 15 years being married to Walt, not Heisenberg. So when Walt starts becoming distant, she makes understandable decisions. She is angry because she is his wife and deserves to know what is going on.

In season three, many people hate how Skyler had an "affair" with Ted. However, I would barely consider it an affair. She kicked Walt out of the house and gave him the divorce papers. If he had just divorced her when she asked, it would not have been an affair. They hated each other at that moment. Not to mention, I thought the "I fucked Ted" scene was badass. Walt turned her family against her, isolating her in her own home. She was trapped, and could not tell the police because she would be in trouble, so she made a power move that worked and made Walt angry.

After this, you can't completely blame her for laundering money. Walt paid the bills with drug money, making her an accomplice. Telling on Walt would have torn the family apart. In season 5, Walt is a full-on manipulative sociopath and essentially makes her a prisoner in her own home. The only thing she can do is try to protect what she has left. Even when she changed everything about her life to accommodate Walt's problems, he still treated her like shit. And in the end all that Walt left her with was some money and a torn apart family, all because of his ego and selfishness.

In conclusion, I spent the entire show feeling bad for Skyler and was surprised to find out she was hated on the internet. Is there anyone here who agrees with me?

Submitted June 27, 2020 at 01:56AM by Cactinotcactuses279 https://ift.tt/2NA5Vv6