“I’m so sorry—for everything that’s happened. I know how much you loved her.” That’s Norma/n, expressing genuine sorrow…
It would be easy to gloss over just how much time is spent this episode with Emma Decody. After all, Alex Romero comes…
Raise your glasses to Charles Hogan, a.k.a. Chick. He deserved better—well, at least a little better—than the…
Family is both the best and worst thing that could ever happen to people. In his thought experiment about the perfect…
“It’s hard to be lonely.” Truer words have never been spoken by Norman Bates. But as he explains to Marion Crane, the…
“Sometimes I see mother when she’s not really there. Sometimes I become her.” These words are a simple statement of…
“What’s really going on here, Norman?”
Accepting Norman Bates as he is has always been the only way to get him to accept you in return. Anyone who starts to…
If there’s one undeniable thing to be said for Bates Motel’s style of storytelling, it’s that sometimes the show just…
“Well, it’s not like we haven’t done this before.” That brief aside between Norman Bates and the figment of his…
The 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…
I’ll always remember Norma Bates at her most indefatigable. Despite her perpetual suspicion that the world was out to…
Life can change on a dime, but family rarely does. Think of all the times you’ve expressed frustration with a parent,…
“Hello. Is my mother there?”
Sheriff Alex Romero may as well have the acronym “MVP” permanently embossed on his business cards, because he is the…
In his book Why We Lie, philosopher and evolutionary psychologist David Livingstone Smith examines what’s so valuable…
In good drama, as in life, the significant moments happen during the quiet beats, the small interstitial fragments of…
“Can you lean in to me a little?”
There’s no such thing as an uncomplicated decision when it comes to family. That goes doubly when it comes to dealing…
From its inception, Bates Motel has depended on its audience’s familiarity with Psycho; the series needs you to know…