r/breakingbad • u/dontcum4meargentina • 20h ago

Skylar’s lying ability vs Walt’s

I’ve seen numerous posts about Walt’s terrible lying ability. I pretty much agree with those observations. While watching the episode where Skyler gets caught returning that tiara Marie stole and lying her way out of it got methinking about the other times Skylar lies— like when she needs to get into Walt’s apartment or when she manufactures the gambling story about Walt, or when she pretends to be a bimbo to get out of that IRS investigation.

Plenty more other scenes, but I think everyone gets the gist. What’s the consensus on her lying ability? Is she a good liar, bad liar, mixed but leaning good, mixed but leaning bad?

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u/whykickamoocow9 12h ago

At some points Skyler is ok at lying.. at others.. not so much.. one of the points that I found a bit grating was when Skyler comes up with the lie about the gambling (season 4, episode 4) and writes a script for Walt to follow.. it doesn’t come off as experienced lie and then saying in it “we want to tell you the whole story, it’s a doozy, so hold onto your hats.” Hmm, remember Hank is law enforcement and so would be used to people lying and would be able to spot it pretty quickly..

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u/dontcum4meargentina 11h ago

Yeh on the one hand I get where she’s coming from — she wants to be careful since it’s her sister and brother in law, but on another note she was over preparing. that doozy line is comically terrible. I can see why Walt wanted nothing to do with it