For her incredible portrayal of Skyler White, the wife of the antihero Walter White on the hit show Breaking Bad, Anna Gunn won a well-deserved Emmy last week. I’m glad she got recognition for a sterling acting performance. But perhaps even more deserving than Gunn is the show’s creator Vince Gilligan and his team of writers for creating such a compelling character. Skyler may be “the most fully realized female character in the history of American TV,” one fan went so far as to write on Facebook.
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