Vince Gilligan Really F**ked up by Forgetting an Overhated Breaking Bad Character That Should’ve Made It to Better Call Saul

Breaking Bad has never failed to deliver when it comes to depicting the fragilities of human desires and the fickle nature of relationships. The AMC crime drama remains one of the best shows to ever air on television while the brutal and revolutionary arc helped launch a second Golden Age of television storytelling.

Breaking Bad [Credit: AMC]

A major part of the credit goes, of course, to the series creator and showrunner, Vince Gilligan. The sheer stroke of genius that helped him map out the subversive plot of Breaking Bad made him an immortal figure in pop culture history, right alongside Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Bob Odenkirk.

However, one character deserves just as much a seat at the table as one of the boys who made Breaking Bad into such a legacy.

Anna Gunn’s Skyler White left behind in the dust

Anna Gunn in Breaking Bad [Credit: AMC]

For the majority of Breaking Bad, there has never been a character – villain or otherwise – as hated as Anna Gunn‘s Skyler. Despite an abundance of criminally perverse and psychotic characters populating the episodes of Breaking Bad, Skyler White has earned a permanent reputation as one of the most hated characters on television.

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As such, her character was left somewhat on the sidelines when the show tapered off toward its explosive end. Although Aaron Paul‘s Jesse Pinkman met his fate in El Camino and Bob Odenkirk‘s Saul Goodman got a chance to shine in Better Call Saul, Skyler never found proper closure in either of those spin-off projects despite her knee-deep involvement in the show’s overall arc.

Vince Gilligan missed an opportunity with Anna Gunn

Breaking Bad feat. Bryan Cranston and Anna Gunn as Walter and Skyler White [Credit: AMC]

Anna Gunn’s character in Breaking Bad goes from a self-righteous character to a money launderer within the course of 3 seasons. Skyler White’s involvement in Walter’s criminal enterprise becomes increasingly vested as she gradually learns of the sheer extent of his meth business.

Later, Skyler cuts free of her ties to Walter in Season 5 when she escapes from Albuquerque with her children and lives in a rundown apartment in New Hampshire. Walter pays her one last visit to inform her about the location of Hank and Steve’s graves but Skyler’s storyline as a whole remains unsolved.

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Given her animosity toward Saul Goodman since their very first meeting in Season 3, the contentious relationship between him and the Whites, and Saul’s involvement in the downfall of her husband, it would have been no surprise if Skyler was brought in to testify against him in Better Call Saul, alongside her sister Marie.

That storyline would have granted the character a proper closure since her erratic storyline in Breaking Bad while also mitigating the audience’s hatred toward her character by showing the aftermath of her destructive life back in Albuquerque.

Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are currently available to stream on Netflix and AMC+.

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