How a blast from Breaking Bad's past predicts Better Call Saul's future

Welcome back, Gus!

Gus Fring is back.
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Gus Fring is back.

Our first glimpse on Better Call Saul of Breaking Bad's best bad guy — and the only man capable of outsmarting Mike Ehrmantrout — shows him sweeping amiably and semi-visibly while Jimmy stares — with zero chill — at the guy Mike charged him with watching.

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Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.