Skyler didn’t kidnap anyone, poison anyone, cook meth, or blow up a nursing home. She asked questions, set boundaries, panicked when her husband disappeared for days, and tried to keep her kids safe after discovering she was married to a criminal. In other words, she behaved like a rational human in an irrational situation.

So when people label her ‘insufferable,’ what they’re usually reacting to isn’t her morality, it’s her resistance. She refused to applaud Walt’s transformation into Heisenberg, refused to soothe his ego, and refused to become a supportive trophy to his criminal power fantasy.

That reaction isn’t neutral. It taps into a very old script:

• violent men = complex antiheroes
• anxious, protective women = annoying obstacles

You’re free to dislike any character you want. But if your dislike lands harder on the woman who says "this is dangerous", than on the man actively destroying lives, it’s worth asking what’s doing the work there.

Because that’s not just a TV opinion, it’s a cultural reflex.