The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
Starting my 80th rewatch of Breaking Bad and I never understood the hate she gets.
Season 1: They have been married 20 years with a baby on the way. All the sudden, out the blue, this man starts disappearing, lying, taking secrets calls. And he lied about having cancer. All Skylar does is get him a better job with free healthcare and payment of the entire treatment. He turns it down.
Season 2: Walt starts it off with a fake ass fugue state that non medical professionals believed. Gets home for 3 days and needs to run to cook meth, so cooks huge breakfasts every time it’s time to lie. Meanwhile she went to get a job to help out. While he’s still doing all the stuff from season 1, but worse. She still sits by his side knowing he lying. As he disappears for days at a time to cook meth. And at the end of it all, Skylar finds out every single thing was a lie. He treatment payments, the trip to his mom, the second phone, all of it
Season 3: Does she call the cops. Tell her sister. Tell the kids. Nope. Just kindly asks him to leave. Hits him with a divorce as anyone would after being lied to like that. Doesn’t ask for money. Doesn’t try to fukk him up. Just a divorce. This man says no and moves back in unwanted, and starts turning the son against her. Mind you Mexican cartel has kidnapped him once and showed up in his house to axe murder him. But fukk her and the fam right? His moves get his brother in law almost murked. Damn season 3 is long cause she still helping this nikka. When Saul has a dumbass idea to launder through a gaming spot, she correctly states how insane that looks and gets the car wash for him. Against his own pessimism.
Season 4: Is when I imagine the hate starts. She cheated on Walt. After all the shyt he put her through, she didn’t leave. She cheated. I think they’re even. But no no. Walt goes on a dumbass mission to challenge the authority of Gus, leading to even more threats to the life of his family. The family who didn’t have shyt to do with this and told him stop when they found out. So now she knows this man is putting her and her kids life in jeopardy on a daily basis besides just the life in prison and all assets gone. But here’s the thing. Gus told Walt to walk away. Keep the money, retire, and live life. Again this man chooses to not put his family first and goes to war with Gus instead.
Season 5: She no longer gives two fukks but still helps him launder money. Again having to show him in the end, all the money, just to get him to quit. Which is what he finally does, until telling on his damn self with his dumbass book in the bathroom.
I’m not sure what exactly she did to become the worst wife in TV history. But every time I watch. I’m amazed that people take Walt’s side against his loving wife.
Season 1: They have been married 20 years with a baby on the way. All the sudden, out the blue, this man starts disappearing, lying, taking secrets calls. And he lied about having cancer. All Skylar does is get him a better job with free healthcare and payment of the entire treatment. He turns it down.
Season 2: Walt starts it off with a fake ass fugue state that non medical professionals believed. Gets home for 3 days and needs to run to cook meth, so cooks huge breakfasts every time it’s time to lie. Meanwhile she went to get a job to help out. While he’s still doing all the stuff from season 1, but worse. She still sits by his side knowing he lying. As he disappears for days at a time to cook meth. And at the end of it all, Skylar finds out every single thing was a lie. He treatment payments, the trip to his mom, the second phone, all of it
Season 3: Does she call the cops. Tell her sister. Tell the kids. Nope. Just kindly asks him to leave. Hits him with a divorce as anyone would after being lied to like that. Doesn’t ask for money. Doesn’t try to fukk him up. Just a divorce. This man says no and moves back in unwanted, and starts turning the son against her. Mind you Mexican cartel has kidnapped him once and showed up in his house to axe murder him. But fukk her and the fam right? His moves get his brother in law almost murked. Damn season 3 is long cause she still helping this nikka. When Saul has a dumbass idea to launder through a gaming spot, she correctly states how insane that looks and gets the car wash for him. Against his own pessimism.
Season 4: Is when I imagine the hate starts. She cheated on Walt. After all the shyt he put her through, she didn’t leave. She cheated. I think they’re even. But no no. Walt goes on a dumbass mission to challenge the authority of Gus, leading to even more threats to the life of his family. The family who didn’t have shyt to do with this and told him stop when they found out. So now she knows this man is putting her and her kids life in jeopardy on a daily basis besides just the life in prison and all assets gone. But here’s the thing. Gus told Walt to walk away. Keep the money, retire, and live life. Again this man chooses to not put his family first and goes to war with Gus instead.
Season 5: She no longer gives two fukks but still helps him launder money. Again having to show him in the end, all the money, just to get him to quit. Which is what he finally does, until telling on his damn self with his dumbass book in the bathroom.
I’m not sure what exactly she did to become the worst wife in TV history. But every time I watch. I’m amazed that people take Walt’s side against his loving wife.
