Bates Motel premiered last night (Mon. 18th) on A&E!

[Scatter]

I'm just a sucker for Mid Century ANYTHING. 

[aura of foreboding]

I'm just a sucker for Mid Century ANYTHING. 

So am I.  So am I... 

[Haunted hearse]

I'm just a sucker for Mid Century ANYTHING. 

Me too.  There is just so much I love about the 1850's!

[FETT1]

I liked it ! The Mom is yummy and somewhat spooky

[Anton Phibes]

I liked it ! The Mom is yummy and somewhat spooky

Mom's a tramp. Which begs to ask: How did she become such a prude in her old age? There's a reason why Dylan refers to her as "The Whore". I suppose she will have a variety of relationships to "protect" Norman before the shows over. If Dylan is even real, and not just a fantasy brother playing out in Norman's twisted fantasy land.

Any similarities to Hitchcock's Psycho and Bates Motel are limited to the House exterior and the motel.

But I keep watching it. Because, while I hate it as a Psycho rip....I like it as...whatever the heck it is actually.

The house is pretty.

[zombiehorror]

I liked it ! The Mom is yummy and somewhat spooky

[zombiehorror]

If Dylan is even real, and not just a fantasy brother playing out in Norman's twisted fantasy land.

Multiple other characters interact with Dylan, from the people he works with, the police and Norma herself!

[Anton Phibes]

Multiple other characters interact with Dylan, from the people he works with, the police and Norma herself!

True. But what if the entire scenerio is playing out in Norman's head? IE--what if they pull a "Lost" and give you a quirky screwed up ending and its all revealed to be a dream, a hoax or an imaginary story?

[Scatter]

Me too.  There is just so much I love about the 1850's!

Right delineation, wrong century. 1/2 credit. 

[aura of foreboding]

Right delineation, wrong century. 1/2 credit. 

That would be an F.   

[Count_Zirock]

My ultimate MILF fantasy! You can have your 72 virgins, that's what I'd want waiting for me in Paradise. :drool

Things are picking up on "Bates Motel," subplot-wise. It seems like they're heading towards a cliffhanger for the mid-season break. I know they're doing ten episodes this season, and it's already been renewed for season two. I wonder if there will be a break, or if they're going straight through.

[Anton Phibes]

Normie began his nervous infatuation with candy consumption this episode. Nice nod. Even the brown paper baggie routine. 

[Haunted hearse]

That would be an F.   

If I known my repsonse would recieve a grade, I would have stduied harder, before I gave my answer.

[yendor1152]

Didn't waste my time on Hannibal, but I have been watching Bates Motel. It just doesn't work for me. I don't like any of the characters. The mom, who looked vaguely familiar until I figured out she was in The Orphan, is a character I absolutely detest. I don't like Norman's brother, I don't like the cop helping the mom (and who, apparently, likes Asian women for sex slaves), and I really don't like the characterization of Norman. We all know what this is leading up to, so it falls on the shoulders of the screenwriters to come up with a logical sweep into the Norman we all know and love from Hitchcock's original. They're just not doing a very good job of it, padding the story with needless asides and sub-plots. We could definitely do without Norman's brother, who seems shoehorned in to "broaden" the story. And the whole thing seems like an anomaly, as if it's displaced in time. They make a point of showing cell phones prominently in EVERY episode, as if to say, "yes, this is now, it's not then. It's now, now, now. Get it?" Yeah, we get it.

What they should've done was set this in the mid 1950s and done it as a period piece. Joan Allen should've played the mom; she'd be perfect casting. And it should've been done in black and white. This color stuff stands out like a sore thumb.

All in all, this was an intriguing experiment, but for me, it fails on almost every level.

Rod

[Monsters For Sale]

Didn't waste my time on Hannibal, but I have been watching Bates Motel. It just doesn't work for me. I don't like any of the characters. The mom, who looked vaguely familiar until I figured out she was in The Orphan, is a character I absolutely detest. I don't like Norman's brother, I don't like the cop helping the mom (and who, apparently, likes Asian women for sex slaves), and I really don't like the characterization of Norman. We all know what this is leading up to, so it falls on the shoulders of the screenwriters to come up with a logical sweep into the Norman we all know and love from Hitchcock's original. They're just not doing a very good job of it, padding the story with needless asides and sub-plots. We could definitely do without Norman's brother, who seems shoehorned in to "broaden" the story. And the whole thing seems like an anomaly, as if it's displaced in time. They make a point of showing cell phones prominently in EVERY episode, as if to say, "yes, this is now, it's not then. It's now, now, now. Get it?" Yeah, we get it.

What they should've done was set this in the mid 1950s and done it as a period piece. Joan Allen should've played the mom; she'd be perfect casting. And it should've been done in black and white. This color stuff stands out like a sore thumb.

All in all, this was an intriguing experiment, but for me, it fails on almost every level.

Rod

I absolutely LOVE Joan Allen.  She would have been a great choice.

There was a little throw-away line in the last episode that abruptly jerked me completely out of the story.  It becomes known that Norman has slept with someone and another character asks if he has "updated his relationships" - referring to Facebook, I guess.

I was going to give this show one more episode - but, I doubt I will bother.

I never had high hopes, but I am still disappointed.  It was a show I wanted to like.