If the picture of Gus Fring wanting into one’s soul sounds scary, Giancarlo Esposito would not fairly see it that method. He continued:

“I do not suppose that is a nasty factor. I feel it is an attentive factor. I consider that Gus was a personality and is a personality who actually had an agenda. And his agenda wasn’t essentially evil. It was straight and to the purpose. So I feel a part of my profession that is been so fantastic, and it began with actually with Gus, is that nobody is simply evil. It is neither black nor white. It is a shade of grey. And it may very well be both/or, which is why I cherished enjoying him. … You turn out to be an amalgamation of all the great and the dangerous that makes you evil by the selections you make whereas the digicam’s on.”

Fring is a posh character, and his attentive nature — utilized towards all the things from conducting his drug enterprise to cleansing kitchen fryers — is actually one among his defining elements. Nevertheless, as ScreenPrism (by way of Laughing Squid) notes, a minimum of a part of his total character as a ruthless meth kingpin, cloaked in pretend fast-food smiles, will also be seen as a critique of capitalism and its all-consuming want for aggressive enlargement and elimination of competitors on the expense of public well being. 

“Breaking Unhealthy” additionally confirmed how Fring was pushed by a need for revenge in opposition to Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) and Don Eladio (Steven Bauer) for the demise of his Los Pollos Hermanos co-founder (and potential lover), Max (James Martinez). Max’s demise units in movement a long-simmering revenge plan for Fring that lastly culminates in his personal lengthy stroll to demise together with Hector (to the tune of the Apparat song “Goodbye”) in a nursing dwelling explosion within the Season 4 finale, “Face Off.”

By setting Fring in opposition to those different worse villains, “Breaking Unhealthy” arguably made the character extra sympathetic, simply as some viewers might need been rooting for Walter White (Bryan Cranston) because the lesser of two evils when in comparison with Fring. The character’s closing grotesque look in “Breaking Unhealthy,” as he adjusts his necktie with half his face blown off, serves as one final reminder of Gus Fring’s twin nature.