Bates Motel

That ‘Bates Motel’ Season 5 Trailer

A&E’s Bates Motel chills bones and breaks hearts, and I’m still not over last year’s finale… This consistently off-putting work of genius has kept viewers on edge for seasons as it barrels toward its conclusion for its fifth and final season starting February 20th. It’s astonishing, frankly, just how successful Bates has been, paving its own way,…

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About That Game Changing ‘Bates Motel’ Episode…

***This post contains MAJOR SPOILERS from last night’s Bates Motel.*** Last night’s penultimate episode of Bates Motel‘s fourth season is, quite honestly, the reason I watch television. After viewing the episode entitled, “Forever,” my mind raced. I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t pull away from Twitter. It was an episode that required processing and mourning before…

Bates Motel: When A Mother’s Love Becomes an Infatuation

Let’s get this straight right off the top: Bates Motel is one of the best shows that you probably aren’t watching. And it’s never been more on fire than it is right now. Bates Motel is (obviously) a prequel series to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. When it first began, we met Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga) and…

Bates Motel Season 2 Teaser Trailer

Usually I’m pretty leery of prequel stories, at least in terms of television. Sometimes they appear to be cheap ploys to jump-start an existing franchise or story to another medium without really having the story or creative direction to back it up. That said, I’m super happy I started watching Bates Motel right from the…

Happening Sh*t – April 26, 2013

This week: a superhero with a large hammer, a Pyscho and his even crazier mom, and a beloved cartoon that is sadly cancelled as it prepares for its final run. Let’s have it: Marvel seems to have done it again: The first Thor 2 trailer hit the web this week and it. looks. badass: The…