Equity review: half Wall Street thriller, half gender-role study

Breaking Bad was never planned as a national conversation starter about sexist double standards in media, but the broad public reaction to Anna Gunn’s character, Skyler White, rapidly turned it into one. Skyler drew so much vitriol that Gunn wrote a New York Times op-ed about the response, and the way it became a referendum on her personally. And a thousand thinkpieces followed, dissecting the Breaking Bad fandom’s rabid response to Skyler, and making the case for and against her. Me