Hannibal: 10 Things We Won't Get To See

Ahhh, Chilton: another Frederick, and the other most obnoxious character in the show. Bryan Fuller has already gone on record as saying that he loves Raúl Esparza’s smarmy portrayal of the worst psychiatrist in the entire world, and is deeply invested having horrible, horrible things happen to him.

If you’re reading this and you’re not up to speed with season three – well, firstly you were warned about spoilers, and secondly you’re probably asking yourself why anyone would talk about Frederick Chilton in the present tense, let alone the hypothetical future tense, because Frederick Chilton is dead, right? In season one, he was surgically gutted and pieced back together missing a few non-vital organs, and in season two he was framed for Lecter’s crimes and shot in the face by one of Lecter’s brainwashed victims. He’s kicked the bucket. He’s shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. He is an ex-Chilton.

Well, you can’t keep a good douchebag down: and like the cockroach he is, Chilton’s still kicking, albeit sans an eye and most of his teeth. Fuller assures us that more is to come for the man in season three, and such is his unctuous horrendousness as a human being that you can’t help but feel he still deserves it. If only there were a season four to continue the Chilton-lovefest. Raúl Esparza is a genius.