Giancarlo Esposito is one of the best actors on TV. He’s so good at being bad that we’ve come to expect him to be the bad guys. The actor is now the protagonist of his latest AMC series, Parish, which premiered on Sunday, March 31, putting him in the spotlight in an antihero role.
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In Parish, Esposito plays Gray Parish, a man trying to leave his life of crime behind while grieving with his family over the death of his son (his wife Rose and daughter Makayla are played by Paula Malcomson and Arica Himmel). However, fate has other plans for the former getaway driver.
He’s soon pulled back into the life for one last job, with his old partner in crime, Colin (a scruffy Skeet Ulrich), bringing in the reluctant Gray. But this “last” job proves to be one of his most dangerous yet, bringing him into contact with an underground organized crime scene featuring Zackary Momoh’s Shepherd “The Horse” Tongai.
Esposito does his best to steer clear of the villains in Parish (including Bradley Whitford in later episodes). Here, we rank the times Esposito has played the villain himself — and done it oh, so well.
