ASeason 5With a moving series finale, Bates Motel chooses the heart over the headAlex McLevy4/24/17 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“I’m so sorry—for everything that’s happened. I know how much you loved her.” That’s Norma/n, expressing genuine sorrow…
B+Season 5Just before the end, Bates Motel does right by its most underutilized characterAlex McLevy4/17/17 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt would be easy to gloss over just how much time is spent this episode with Emma Decody. After all, Alex Romero comes…
BSeason 5Freddie Highmore shines behind and in front of the camera on Bates MotelAlex McLevy4/10/17 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkRaise your glasses to Charles Hogan, a.k.a. Chick. He deserved better—well, at least a little better—than the…
A-Season 5Family is a necessary tragedy on an inspired Bates MotelAlex McLevy4/03/17 10:03pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFamily is both the best and worst thing that could ever happen to people. In his thought experiment about the perfect…
B+Season 5Bates Motel smartly delivers its most surprising twist yetAlex McLevy3/27/17 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“It’s hard to be lonely.” Truer words have never been spoken by Norman Bates. But as he explains to Marion Crane, the…
B+Season 5Rihanna arrives and Bates Motel, at long last, begins its version of PsychoAlex McLevy3/20/17 10:04pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Sometimes I see mother when she’s not really there. Sometimes I become her.” These words are a simple statement of…
BSeason 5In “Hidden,” Bates Motel goes full horror movieGenevieve Valentine3/14/17 1:15amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“What’s really going on here, Norman?”
BSeason 5Bates Motel’s men get to know the new Norma BatesAlex McLevy3/06/17 11:51pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAccepting Norman Bates as he is has always been the only way to get him to accept you in return. Anyone who starts to…
BSeason 5Bates Motel ramps up the fun with a salacious infidelity subplotAlex McLevy2/27/17 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf there’s one undeniable thing to be said for Bates Motel’s style of storytelling, it’s that sometimes the show just…
B-Season 5The deliciously dark and tragic end game begins on Bates MotelAlex McLevy2/20/17 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Well, it’s not like we haven’t done this before.” That brief aside between Norman Bates and the figment of his…
A-Season 4Bates Motel ends its season with a requiem for Norman BatesAlex McLevy5/16/16 11:16pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe lucky ones among us don’t know what it’s like to attend the funeral of someone you love. But the very lucky ones go…
ASeason 4The fires of change are lit on an unforgettable Bates MotelAlex McLevy5/09/16 11:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI’ll always remember Norma Bates at her most indefatigable. Despite her perpetual suspicion that the world was out to…
A-Season 4Bates Motel reminds everyone there’s no escaping the pastAlex McLevy5/02/16 11:31pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLife can change on a dime, but family rarely does. Think of all the times you’ve expressed frustration with a parent,…
B+Season 4For Bates Motel, “There’s No Place Like Home” any moreGenevieve Valentine4/26/16 12:35amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Hello. Is my mother there?”
B+Season 4The past is a powder keg on an earnest and revealing Bates MotelAlex McLevy4/18/16 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSheriff Alex Romero may as well have the acronym “MVP” permanently embossed on his business cards, because he is the…
B+Season 4Bates Motel spends an hour exploring all the useful little lies we tellAlex McLevy4/11/16 10:44pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn his book Why We Lie, philosopher and evolutionary psychologist David Livingstone Smith examines what’s so valuable…
BSeason 4Tonight, there’s gonna be a jailbreak on Bates MotelAlex McLevy3/28/16 10:59pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn good drama, as in life, the significant moments happen during the quiet beats, the small interstitial fragments of…
B+Season 4Bates Motel cordially invites you to the tragedy of Norma BatesGenevieve Valentine3/21/16 11:05pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Can you lean in to me a little?”
BSeason 4An unexpected Bates Motel changes the show foreverAlex McLevy3/14/16 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere’s no such thing as an uncomplicated decision when it comes to family. That goes doubly when it comes to dealing…
B-Season 4Bates Motel’s season four premiere wastes no time getting to the crazyAlex McLevy3/07/16 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFrom its inception, Bates Motel has depended on its audience’s familiarity with Psycho; the series needs you to know…
