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Is it just me, or did Freddie Highmore really hit it out of the freakin' park on, Bates Motel, this week?
I mean, the show is creepy to the Nth power to BEGIN with - as it should be - really painful to watch, at times, with the sickness in that family, just growing and growing, getting darker and darker - you want to take a long shower (pun, not intended), after watching it.
As it should be.
They show Norman Bates as a sympathetic character - a killer made, not born - as it should be. Heartbreaking, at times. They're all sympathetic characters, and heartbreaking in their own ways.
Like, last week, with the brother, Dylan - the kid was so pathetic, wanting so desperately to spend time with his, 'uncle', while surrounded by/running with/working for murdering criminals - and Norma, herself, just a total fucked-up wreck, wanting so desperately to live this exciting, 'good life' with the new friends and the party and the whole theater business..Vera Farmiga plays Norma with such fragility, at times - then, HOT/ICE/HOT/ICE - master manipulator; I want to scream, "Stop touching Norman, like that! You're making me sick!" Does she make this stuff up? Is it all in her head? Is it just to, 'get her own way' - or does she really believe it all? And poor little Emma. Gawd. She's so sweet, I hate to see Norman kill her - and you know it's coming, eventually..Well. I guess that the new chick - the theater chick with the gay friend - is going to get it, first, judging by the way it ended, this week. You know it's got to be a while before he kills Norma, because the wig and dress he wears in the original are for a much older woman, right? Right?
However, I noticed that Norma's started wearing her hair in a sort of Marion Crane-do. And endless shirtwaist/cocktail dresses - IDK, sort of reminiscent of the original time period. Is she going to end up dating/sleeping with this brother that she went to dinner with? Is he the one Norman originally kills, 'in bed' with Norma?
"Periwinkle blue", the sheriff's wife
When Norman started fucking CHANNELING HER, I almost lost it. MY WORD, what a scene - the tension was off the hook, then WHAMMO. I honestly didn't expect THAT to happen, so soon - Highmore absolutely NAILED it ALL, even raising the knife towards the uncle JUST LIKE NORMAN IN THE MOVIES, and slashing out - just a simple detail, but SO right-on; what an actor, that kid. Freakin' awesome.
I was sort of still, 'meh' about the series - being such a fan of the original - until that moment.
*sucked in*
I mean, the show is creepy to the Nth power to BEGIN with - as it should be - really painful to watch, at times, with the sickness in that family, just growing and growing, getting darker and darker - you want to take a long shower (pun, not intended), after watching it.
As it should be.
They show Norman Bates as a sympathetic character - a killer made, not born - as it should be. Heartbreaking, at times. They're all sympathetic characters, and heartbreaking in their own ways.
Like, last week, with the brother, Dylan - the kid was so pathetic, wanting so desperately to spend time with his, 'uncle', while surrounded by/running with/working for murdering criminals - and Norma, herself, just a total fucked-up wreck, wanting so desperately to live this exciting, 'good life' with the new friends and the party and the whole theater business..Vera Farmiga plays Norma with such fragility, at times - then, HOT/ICE/HOT/ICE - master manipulator; I want to scream, "Stop touching Norman, like that! You're making me sick!" Does she make this stuff up? Is it all in her head? Is it just to, 'get her own way' - or does she really believe it all? And poor little Emma. Gawd. She's so sweet, I hate to see Norman kill her - and you know it's coming, eventually..Well. I guess that the new chick - the theater chick with the gay friend - is going to get it, first, judging by the way it ended, this week. You know it's got to be a while before he kills Norma, because the wig and dress he wears in the original are for a much older woman, right? Right?
However, I noticed that Norma's started wearing her hair in a sort of Marion Crane-do. And endless shirtwaist/cocktail dresses - IDK, sort of reminiscent of the original time period. Is she going to end up dating/sleeping with this brother that she went to dinner with? Is he the one Norman originally kills, 'in bed' with Norma?
"Periwinkle blue", the sheriff's wife
When Norman started fucking CHANNELING HER, I almost lost it. MY WORD, what a scene - the tension was off the hook, then WHAMMO. I honestly didn't expect THAT to happen, so soon - Highmore absolutely NAILED it ALL, even raising the knife towards the uncle JUST LIKE NORMAN IN THE MOVIES, and slashing out - just a simple detail, but SO right-on; what an actor, that kid. Freakin' awesome.
I was sort of still, 'meh' about the series - being such a fan of the original - until that moment.
*sucked in*
