Bates Motel

Bates Motel episodes 4.9 (written by Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse) and 4.10 (Kerry Ehrin) played like a two-partner, shocking the audience with the death…

Bates Motel 4.8 (penned by Freddie Highmore in his writing debut) showed us a facing off of sorts – between Norman wanting to keep himself…

Bates Motel 4.7 (written by Philip Buiser) was a quiet episode, preferring to show things slowly unraveling rather than slamming the audience with another shocking…

Bates Motel 4.6 (written by Scott Kosar) continued the pattern of both Norman and Norma confronting their issues simultaneously but separately. Usually, mother and son…

Bates Motel slowed its frenetic-paced season with “Refraction” (written by Erica Lipez), taking some time to look at where each of our characters now stand,…

Bates Motel 4.4 (written by Tom Szentgyorgyi) kept Norman and his mother apart, continuing to shine a light on how both are faring without the…

Bates Motel 4.3 finally allowed Alex Romero and Norma to get together, even if it was for their fake marriage. Meanwhile, Norman raged against his commitment…

The thing about Bates Motel is even when its story fell short at times, the acting was always so mesmerizing that it made the show…

Bates Motel’s season finale “Unconscious,” brilliantly written by executive producers Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin, saw Norman commit murder in the full persona of “mother,”…

Bates Motel 3.9 “Crazy” (penned by a trio of the show’s writers) established Norman’s increasing psychosis, and bought home the heartbreaking reality that there may…

Bates Motel “The Pit” (written by Bill Bialas) was all about confrontation: Confronting your enemies; confronting the ones you love; and confronting the darkness within…