Character from Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan
Walt's wife who went from suspicious spouse to reluctant accomplice to the woman laundering a drug empire's money through a car wash — trapped between her family and the monster wearing her husband's face.
Skyler White is the most unfairly hated character in television history, and the audience's hatred of her is the show's most damning commentary on its viewers. She discovers her husband is a meth manufacturer, tries to protect her children, gets pulled into money laundering because the alternative is losing everything, and spends the rest of the series terrified of the man she married. She is smart — smart enough to invent the car wash money laundering scheme, smart enough to create a gambling addiction cover story, smart enough to know that Walt's 'I am the danger' speech means she is living with a monster. She is also trapped: leaving means exposing the children to the truth, staying means enabling a drug empire. Her famous pool scene — walking into the water in front of the dinner guests — is a woman performing desperation because nobody will listen to her actual words. By the finale, she's gaunt, smoking in a cramped apartment, facing prosecution. Her deal with the DEA spares her prison in exchange for information about Hank's body.
Tall, blonde, carries the tense posture of someone holding everything together through clenched teeth. Her appearance becomes progressively more strained as the series advances — fewer smiles, darker clothes, the weight of complicity visible in her shoulders.
Also known as: Skyler, Mrs. White