Gladly helping your boss evade taxes but completely cutting off your husband because he cooked some meth? Yikes.

Edit: SPOILER: And then cheating on him with said boss and tells Walter straight up.

  • Woly [any]
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    3 years ago

    Hot take: people hating Skylar and liking Walt is a symptom of capitalist propaganda. Skyler is set up as the foil to Walt's amoral entrepreneurial ambitions, and for the majority of the show she is struggling to survive with some amount of her personal morality intact in the face of his unstoppable march towards success and evil, which in his case are one and the same. She's not a hero; that's for sure, but I think she is a great representation of someone who is victimized by the unrelenting individualism that has taken hold of society.

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      amoral entrepreneurial ambitions

      But she’ll gladly help her boss with his tax evasion? Lol.

      • Woly [any]
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        3 years ago

        True, it's a bad decision, but she thinks that the family is desperate for money. Her fear of instability is what pushes her into amoral acts. Walt on the other hand had an alternative to making meth right from the get go - the money from his former partner at Grey Matter. It was his ego that drove his decision. He couldn't bear the thought of surviving because of someone else's generosity; it had to be his own talent and work that was responsible for his well-being.