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If this show were more widely watched, the thinkpieces about the latest episode would be numerous. I'm just glad that they can still throw us some curveballs in the last season.
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I didn't take away that Norman is gay. Sleeping with a guy during a Norma blackout felt more about his screwed up feelings about Norma than it did about some repressed sexual attraction that Norman has to dudes.
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Mar 22, 2017 02:03
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If it wasn't obvious that the end of the episode indicates we're going into territory brought up in the movie, there were two scenes that were lifted straight from Psycho: Norman's meeting with the sheriff and Marion meeting with the two guys who give her the briefcase full of money. Cool little touches.
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And I'm not sure how best to describe my feelings about this week's episode...        Maybe all of the above? Holy Hell when you realize the writers spent the last however many years leading up to telling their version of events from the movie... so very different and yet so very the same. complete with the mother of all fake outs to spare this version of Marion and kill this verison of Sam. A weakness of the show was how unlikable Sam was  so I don't actually care about Norman killing Sam at Norma's behest. Now if the Norma or an especially lazy sheriff tries to pin the murder on Marion or Madeline, that would suck. Or just make for some great drama. The previews for next week show just how off the deep end this show has become. I love it.
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Mar 28, 2017 04:34
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Most slept on show of all time. Hell yeah Freddie Highmore. Norma is so creepy this season
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Mar 28, 2017 16:32
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god drat what a great ending, my heart was racing throughout that entire episode. I think norman is more broken now than he was when he thought mother was real.
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Mar 29, 2017 00:59
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Best ep of the season so far. I love the little subversion of the famous scene when Marion is in the shower. Poor Norman, he was so close to breaking Norma's grip on him, now he's completely gone.
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I do appreciate how they did not make Sam likable at all. He was just a dick and perfect for what they did with him. Holy poo poo Mother what did I do.
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Mar 31, 2017 04:17
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My takeaway from every episode of this show is that it wouldn't be nearly as good with anyone but Vera Farmiga playing Norma.
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Ehud posted:My takeaway from every episode of this show is that it wouldn't be nearly as good with anyone but Vera Farmiga playing Norma. Also Freddie Highmore
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Mar 31, 2017 15:05
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This is gettin' good. I'm amazed at what this show is doing in its final episodes. Norman totally killed his psychiatrist. Finding out that his mind is capable of conjuring up a resistance to Norma was pretty drat creepy.
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Apr 4, 2017 09:53
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This show! I don't think I've been bored once these last two seasons.
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Apr 4, 2017 16:43
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yeah when Dylan was at the pharmacy and she said that he'd been missing for a year... i was shocked. has norman been seeing other people in his head besides mother?
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Apr 4, 2017 23:05
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I love Norman's version of Norma. I love this show. I love all of you. 3 more episodes.
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Apr 5, 2017 02:49
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Norma trying to pin the murder on Madeline was pretty twisted.
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Apr 11, 2017 07:46
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How's Norman getting out of this one? Only 3 more 
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Apr 11, 2017 18:33
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Two more. Last night was eight.
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that was a bit anti climactic with chick being shot dead but man I felt that coming
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Neurotic Roleplay posted:that was a bit anti climactic with chick being shot dead but man I felt that coming
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Really wish more people were into this show, I never gear about it. I don't watch too much TV so finding something I'm really excited about week by week is really nice, but at least in my circles it didn't really catch on. A couple people remember being excited when it was announced but that's it. But it must have done OK to have made it 5 seasons. Mondays episode felt like an ending, I'm glad there's two more hours because that's a lot of time to have everything go off the rails. Weirdly I'm rooting for Norman even though he's a moidarer but I don't see any way out for him unless he does it to himself, which I don't think is too far fetched.
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Several people I reccomended the show to were turned off by the unnecessary, graphic rape scene in the first episode. The first season was also kind of weak.
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My friend started watching Bates on Netflix and I told him to stick with it until the third season. The first season had way too many dead-end plots, while the second season had less of them but nothing really happened that had a big effect on the rest of the show. Off the top of my head, the only thing in Season 2 that ever came up again was Jordan leaving. And both of them tried to make the origin of Norman Bates into CW-esque high school romance stuff. What really holds the show together in those low points is Vera Farmiga's acting. The third season is where things really started to get good. It's a slow boil, but boil it does.
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Apr 13, 2017 05:09
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Minor nitpick in an otherwise excellent episode, but I don't think you're allowed to pump your own gas in Oregon.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:58
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So who's gonna buy "Norman's Peephole Painting?" 'Cause you can. I'm glad there wasn't too much trial stuff last night. I was afraid the last 2 episodes would be all in that setting.
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So I've completely missed this season. Anybody know when it'll be on Netflix?
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SamuraiFoochs posted:So I've completely missed this season. Anybody know when it'll be on Netflix?
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get that OUT of my face posted:I'm not sure how long they wait before putting up A&E stuff on Netflix. Probably a few months. Previously it's been about 8 months but I'm hoping it'll be faster since this is the last season.
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get that OUT of my face posted:Minor nitpick in an otherwise excellent episode, but I don't think you're allowed to pump your own gas in Oregon.
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so... is Romero gonna end up killing norman? and will we ever see the norman personality come back? im really excited for the last episode!
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Neurotic Roleplay posted:so... is Romero gonna end up killing norman? and will we ever see the norman personality come back? I think that Norma will escape jail and go back to the house, and kill romero like the PI was killed in Psycho. They have the same stairs and have to use them, Dylan then kills his brother
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Man this season has been so well done. The struggle for Norman's brain has just been amazing...can't wait for the last episode to see wtf goes down. This series is fantastic. I gotta go and watch the original Psycho when it is over.
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I'm starting to think the White Pine Bay Sheriffs department aren't very good at their jobs.
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gently caress, that was pretty good. E: I know Freddie is English but I always forget the actress who played Emma is and it surprises me. Such good acting all around; even Max Thieriot did a good job in that final scene. HungryMedusa fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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HungryMedusa posted:gently caress, that was pretty good. Yeah, that finale was really good. That final scene managed to be grossly macabre and genuinely moving, which is impressive but something this series has pulled off its entire run.
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Lmao was I the only one wondering right up to the last minute "...so when's he going to move to the big city and become a finance guy..?"
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Pretty good finale. I'm happy they included a scene showing things were ok with Emma and Dylan. The rest was inevitable but I'd be pretty dissatisfied if they didn't make it through.
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I was morbidly hoping Emma and Dylan's daughter would look directly into the camera and make a Norman face. Good finale. The last supper was loving grim, and I'm glad Dylan threw up because someone had to.
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Great end. It's amazing how they kept Norman as a sympathetic character up until the end. Also that meeting between Dylan and his former partner in the weed racket had to have been there as a nod to the fact that recreational weed was illegal in Oregon when the show started, but now it's legal.
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So it's finally done. That was quite a ride. I still feel bad for Norma, she wanted to protect her son and get him healthy but apparently she didn't see how far he'd gone. I said it before, but there's such an interesting contrast to the show before and after her death. The show goes from the quirky adventures of a fashionable single mother trying to balance running her own small business and taking care of her mentally ill son to a disturbed young man's struggle to keep his psyche from peeling away like an onion. As far as the ending oges for some reason I was expecting them to end it much closer to the movie. The movies ending scene was always my favorite and I was looking forward to seeing Freddie High-more do it. I'm fine with the ending we got though. I feel like this was a pretty solid and satisfyingly complete 5 season show.
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