Why is skyler so annoying

She's watching out for it. This is actually the moment when some legitimate dislike of Skyler White would make sense. As Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan said in an interview with New York magazine earlier this year: "I like Skyler a little less now that she's succumbed to Walt's machinations, but in the early days she was the voice of morality on the show.

She was the one telling him, 'You can't cook crystal meth. Yet some fans of the show continue to detest Skyler, but not because she's engaging in immoral behavior. What bothers them is a certain hypocrisy they detect in her, stemming from the fact that she objects to Walt's meth business — an objection that finally convinced him to quit cooking — yet continues to potentially benefit from all that dirty money.

A couple of weeks before Gunn's op-ed piece was published, I got into an argument with a male friend of mine about this very issue. We started talking about Breaking Bad , and he mentioned how much he loathes Skyler, adding that the reason she bugs him is the same reason that Hillary Clinton bugs him. At this point, a small but discernible amount of smoke started coming out of my ear holes. But I took a deep breath.

And then I very calmly said, " What the hell is that supposed to mean? Instead, he contended, they used those dysfunctional marriages to their benefit.

Now I'm not even going to address the Clintonian side of this argument because, frankly, it's my mission to get through most days without thinking about the Starr Report. But I will say that I initially reacted to this statement by assuming my friend thought that Skyler should have behaved like a victim and just slunk away with her baby carriage and what was left of her pride. But then I thought about it more and realized what he actually meant was that these women shouldn't put up with their men's crap, that as soon as they were disrespected and mistreated, they should have walked away.

But here's the problem with that argument: Marriages are complicated. There are a lot of reasons why just calling it quits isn't necessarily the right or even the smart thing to do. If we all remember our season-three Breaking Bad , we remember that Skyler actually did try to initiate divorce proceedings at one point, but felt strongly that she didn't want Walt Jr. More importantly, her attorney advised she could be prosecuted as an accessory after the fact if she spent any of Walt's drug money, something she had already been doing unknowingly, then knowingly did when she used it to help with Hank's medical bills.

She trapped herself. And now that she's trapped, the best she can do is continue to protect her family — including her husband — by pragmatically preventing them from getting caught. As I further ponder that Breaking Bad argument with my friend — which ultimately ended with us agreeing to disagree, then deciding to talk about The Walking Dead instead, but without bringing up Lori Grimes — I also think that part of what irks him and perhaps others about Skyler is that, as she's a woman, we expect her to be the moral compass.

If her husband is the one who knocks, then she's supposed to be the one who knows better, the one who figures out how to extricate herself from the marriage and accepts the consequences of being a so-called accessory instead of digging herself even deeper into an aiding-and-abetting hole. Skyler might have to wait, but you don't have to.

Showrunner Gilligan also believed sexism contributed to fans hating Skyler so much. It's like the more money we come across… the more problems we see. Skyler was worse than a nag, then — she was an unworthy adversary.

What could be more antithetical to his progress than his annoying pregnant wife who thinks her support matters? Ultimately, Walter White dies and Skyler escapes him. 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.

Intriguing insights aside, it's become clear in the years since Breaking Bad left the airwaves that all the Skyler hate took a serious toll on Gunn's confidence. Per the same EW interview, the actress admitted that it was "very tough" on her.

Gunn further shared, "It shook me. As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting. In fact, characters that are more difficult in a way are more interesting. But when you are on a show that has become that big and people are identifying you so much with somebody that they dislike, you can't help but feel like you get folded into it.