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Bates Motel “Unconscious” 

[Warning: Spoilers for tonight’s season finale.] One of the things that’s always intrigued me in the way scenes are blocked is whether and how characters physically touch each other. Y’all know that was one of my nits about Hell on Wheels and the arc with Ruth and Bohannon. In tonight’s Bates…

Bates Motel “Norma Louise” 

It’s taken me three years to realize that Bates Motel is so much easier to watch with the lights off. Tonight’s episode was visually and thematically dark as Norma grasped for some sort of control in her life, but had to fall back into old habits to get there, and…

Bates Motel “A Death in the Family” 

When we chatted with Carlton Cruse Friday about season three, he mentioned they were intentionally returning to the darker “monochromatic” atmosphere of the show’s first season, and I have to say, I’m completely down with that. I like my moody shows dark and broody, and out of the gate, we’re back…

TV Goodness Teaser: Bates Motel Season 3 

[Warning: Spoilers ahead.] Get ready. Just when you thought it was safe to check back in to Bates Motel, the A&E promo wizards are here to blow your mind a little bit with this super-bendy teaser video that plays with Norman and Norma bleeding together to form the fractured psyche we…

Bates Motel “The Immutable Truth” 

I know full well that Norma and Norman are the glue of Bates Motel, but I could seriously watch a show all about Norma and Dylan. For me, that’s where the finale tonight just sang. We knew a couple of the big MacGuffins were just lost leaders–Norman wasn’t going to…