Norman learned nothing from his treatment at the loony bin. After watching Bates Motel Season 5 Episode 1, it's almost impossible to understand how he's a functional young man outside the confines ...

The first season of Bates Motel built steadily ... of narrative threads that all have their roots in the first ten episodes. Naturally, the focus is still on the central pairing of Norm and ...

“Well, just for the first year...” Appropriately, that’s the first bit of dialogue we hear on Bates Motel. Then the camera pans away from the Cary Grant movie and zooms in on an eyebal ...

Dylan heads up to a cabin he rented. A guy named Gunner is there. Norman has run the entire way home and back to the motel. He shares how he felt very strange and thought Miss Watson was sitting ...

Norman Bates’ psychosis has always been linked to his fear of sex, and sex preoccupies both opening episodes of the third ... While Bates Motel started shaky, it’s honestly quite brilliant ...

After portraying Norman Bates for four years ... producer and receiving both writing and directing credits for various episodes. On the big screen, Highmore was a voice actor on Dragon Rider ...

Combining a range of tones throughout, Bates Motel remains one of those television shows that you simply cannot keep your eyes away from, and this first episode ensures plenty more thrills ahead.