Many of the Skyler White hate-memes repeat the look of cold shock or tearful anger that has defined the last two seasons of her situation, as if making a point about her performance.
When Skyler discovers what Walter has been up to, she tries to stop him, to no avail. That viewers can identify with this antihero is also a testament to how deftly his character is written and acted. As the one character who consistently opposes Walter and calls him on his lies, Skyler is, in a sense, his antagonist. And then they are to see they are rooting for perversion. Skyler is an essential element he he to this puzzle: we are meant to find her unappealing because we are meant to see our bloodthirst for making it big.
She is a crucial device in the audience feeling badly about our convictions. This is clear right from the start, long before she even knows about Walt's alter-ego of Heisenberg and what he really gets up to. She is always on his case as well as their sons. It is a characteristic that she clearly had throughout her life, but that doesn't make it a great one. Because it's something that a lot of people can relate to, it instantly made her unlikeable, and as it's something she did throughout the series it didn't help her character.
Even though Skyler is technically right to question Walt about his whereabouts as he constantly spends time away, she does show a real lack of trust in her husband. It wasn't a great characteristic to have as a character, and even though she was correct to worry, as Walt was busy cooking up the meth, it made audiences instantly not like her.
Because of the fact, Walt is suffering from cancer when she first starts questioning him and showing a lack of faith, it does paint her in a negative light as a character. While there's nothing wrong with smoking, the problem for Skyler was that she started smoking while she was pregnant. It's a big no in the eyes of many people and that's a big reason why people really started to hate her as a character.
It was her way of coping with the stress that was going on at the time, however, the fact she was pregnant while she was smoking made her much worse as a character. Sure, she had tons of stress going on, but that doesn't really excuse her potentially harming her unborn child. Even though Walter White does a lot of despicable things, the reason he gets involved in the drug world is to provide for his family. He is scared of dying and leaving them with nothing, but Skyler seems unable to see that at any point, which is something that makes her character worse as well.
However, Skyler doesn't show that same loyalty at any point. Whether it's throwing Walt out of the family home or actually having an affair, she doesn't show loyalty to him in the same way he does with her. Even though Skyler made it clear she isn't happy with what Walt is doing, she happily ends up helping Ted sort his finances out even though she knows he has been fiddling with the figures illegally.
Unfortunately, her sound advice and reasonable stance on things didn't attract viewers — it repelled them, making Skyler the most hated character on Breaking Bad. That may even be a bit of an understatement. During Breaking Bad 's small-screen run, it often felt like Skyler White was the most hated television character ever , if not one of the most despised ones presented in any format. That fact was particularly surprising given that Breaking Bad was full of vile, self-serving characters worthy of hatred — with Cranston's meth kingpin Walt more than deserving the top spot on a list of terrible characters.
Still, much of Breaking Bad 's fanbase directed its wrath at Gunn's Skyler. Though Skyler did make a few moral missteps throughout the series like getting frisky with Christopher Cousins' Ted Beneke , she was hardly the shrill, nagging, "ball-and-chain" that people made her out to be. The hate got very real very quickly, and in a interview with Entertainment Weekly , Gunn herself offered her own take on why the character was so reviled on the show. 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.
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