This show is so flat-out brilliant it drives me nuts that it doesn't win awards. The final episode of last season was among the greatest episodes of any TV drama I have seen. That Vera and Freddie are not noticed by the EMMYs reflects how predictable and political awards are in Hollywood. The writers and everyone…

It's interesting to reflect on the arc of the show. It has always mixed the macabre with the funny. Norma could be a shrew, but also a delightful vamp—a loving mother and a horrible smothering mother. Her death mask of a face seems a puniishment for her sins. Eyes glued open looking at the horrible creature she…

So brilliant, so sad, so creepy, so perfect. Best episode of Bates ever. I hated Norman and I wept for Norman. A pathetic creation of a mother he ended up killing. So much duality. Everything was horrific yet in parts funny. Freddie Highmore was just amazing. I cried at the end for that sad little boy, but he was evil…

I can't believe that happened. Norman is a monster and Norma was killed by her creation. The last 20 minutes was a descent into madness for both, that Norma enabled. I think the full weight of what she had allowed to happen to her son hit her and her only refuge was desperate fantasy and preposterous notions of…

I happened to watch a scene from Psycho today. Amazing how close to Anthony Perkins Freddie Highmore gets. Uncanny really.

That scene with the knife, slowly slicing through the wall as Norman watches his mother have sex, not too phallic, eh? So will Norman kill by knife or axe? What a brilliant episode in a brilliant show.