Apr 24 2017
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“I’m so sorry—for everything that’s happened. I know how much you loved her.” That’s Norma/n, expressing genuine…
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Apr 17 2017
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It would be easy to gloss over just how much time is spent this episode with Emma Decody. After all, Alex Romero…
Apr 10 2017
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Raise your glasses to Charles Hogan, a.k.a. Chick. He deserved better—well, at least a little better—than the…
Apr 3 2017
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Family is both the best and worst thing that could ever happen to people. In his thought experiment about the…
Mar 27 2017
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“It’s hard to be lonely.” Truer words have never been spoken by Norman Bates. But as he explains to Marion Crane,…
Mar 20 2017
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“Sometimes I see mother when she’s not really there. Sometimes I become her.” These words are a simple statement of…
Mar 14 2017
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“What’s really going on here, Norman?”
Mar 6 2017
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Accepting Norman Bates as he is has always been the only way to get him to accept you in return. Anyone who starts…
Feb 27 2017
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If there’s one undeniable thing to be said for Bates Motel’s style of storytelling, it’s that sometimes the show…
Feb 20 2017
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“Well, it’s not like we haven’t done this before.” That brief aside between Norman Bates and the figment of his…
May 16 2016
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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…
May 9 2016
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I’ll always remember Norma Bates at her most indefatigable. Despite her perpetual suspicion that the world was out…
May 2 2016
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Life can change on a dime, but family rarely does. Think of all the times you’ve expressed frustration with a…
Apr 26 2016
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“Hello. Is my mother there?”
Apr 18 2016
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Sheriff Alex Romero may as well have the acronym “MVP” permanently embossed on his business cards, because he is the…
Apr 11 2016
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In his book Why We Lie, philosopher and evolutionary psychologist David Livingstone Smith examines what’s so…
Mar 28 2016
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In good drama, as in life, the significant moments happen during the quiet beats, the small interstitial fragments…
Mar 21 2016
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“Can you lean in to me a little?”
Mar 14 2016
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There’s no such thing as an uncomplicated decision when it comes to family. That goes doubly when it comes to…
Mar 7 2016
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From its inception, Bates Motel has depended on its audience’s familiarity with Psycho; the series needs you to know…