As Chilton, Raul Esparza makes you grind your teeth, but that’s just proof that he does his job perfectly.
The actor, who was also a Bryan Fuller veteran prior to the NBC show thanks to a pair of Pushing Daisies episodes, has mostly kept to the small screen in the last few years, with recurring roles on Hulu’s The Path and Netflix’s Bojack Horseman.
He’s also continued to play Rafael Barba on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (a character he has been playing since 2012), and he recently did an episode of The Good Fight (reuniting him with Hugh Dancy).
It seems fitting to follow Freddie Lounds with Dr. Frederick Chilton, as the moral-less psychiatrist notably winds up facing the fate in Hannibal that Lounds experiences in Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon novel (which is to say disfigured by Francis Dolarhyde and set on fire).