re: Doing a breaking bad rewatch, still incredible

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she lets him do anal

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Did I miss this part somehow?

Obviously Skyler had to stay at home to perfect her Marilyn Monroe act

She was also on Seinfeld.

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Typical woman beats her husband down so much he truly doesn’t care anymore. Never realizing how much he wants to suck start a shotgun every morning than live another day in the pure misery and humdrum that his life has become. I may need to see someone……

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agreed, but - devil's advocate - his depression and lack of give a shite in life made him something of a pathetic shell of a man and she, like most women, needed an actual man to be her husband and father to her children.

i've rewatched this series a couple times and on each rewatch i find Walt less of an anti-hero and more of just a piece of shite and i find Skyler more of a sympathetic character.

she's still annoying as frick though.

Every re watch I do, I like Hank and Jesse more and hate everyone else on the show more.

My first watch, was the opposite. I hated Jesse and Hank and was rooting for Walt.

His hubris was always there and his bad decision making too....but as has been said, he had given up in the beginning of the show and accepted his fate. Skylar was not the worst person at all, she was a normal wife that supported her family and husband as best as she could. When Walt got the cancer diagnosis, he hid tons of stuff from her. She was all in to help him but he decided to go it alone and do what he did. Her eventual cheating and wanting him to leave was due to lying constantly to her (and again, I don't like Skylar but you cant really fault her for being angry). She also had to deal with the realization that her husband is now a drug producer that opposes Hank and she has to support him and keep the secrets vs. outing him when he is dying,etc. I've changed my opinion on her over time. She basically supported him and tried to protect him for the most part after she came around and knew the truth.

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It's an interesting show to rewatch. On your first go-through you don't know what's going to happen, of course, so you keep waiting to see if Walt is going to finally do something to redeem himself from the road he is going down. You notice the good side of him (what there is, anyway) more because you keep expecting that side to win out in the end. On a rewatch, you know going into it that Walt is an evil, despicable person who has very few redeeming qualities so you notice that side of him a lot more, especially in the early episodes. It turns the show from "watching an overall pretty good guy slowly turn to darkness because life keeps dealing him a shite hand" to "watching a soulless, depraved monster slowly drop the facade he has been keeping up his whole life and finally let his true self out."

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Billy Shakespeare couldnt have said it better

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She is insensitive, selfish and self-absorbed. She is a terrible mother, wife, sibling and friend. Other than that she is a great.

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Are we comparing her character to Walter?
She was a better person and parent than Walter was by far.