Bates Motel...it was a good run. But I've given it two seasons and nope...it didn't improve. Having read some of the reviews it perplexes me what people find to be quality. Admittedly I'm always going to set the bar high for a series like Bates Motel because of its pedigree and source material. For me this show had less to do with fleshing out what makes Norman Bates tick, and more to do with chucking a recognizable franchise into what could have been a series based on any characters thrown into a crazy nonsensical drama. To be honest, I'm being nice saying drama. This is pure soap on the scale of True Blood or American Horror Story. A lot of twists and turns that do nothing to ultimately grow such an outstanding character.
When starting this I had hoped for a slow burn psychological drama that would search the inner darkness much more. Instead we get a mess of weed dealing kingpins, city hall mess, and a small town full of high level criminals. That isn't believable for any part of this country. Psycho was the first slasher movie. The first time film really explored a deeper, darker side of psychosis at such depth. It was a complex "horror" story like nothing anyone had seen. People fainted in this movie when it was released. While I consider Vertigo to be Hitchcock's masterpiece; Psycho had always been a close second. It featured the birth of the first scream queen (Janet Leigh) who was the mother of the most famous screen queen (Jamie Lee Curtis). Bates Motel had a lot to live up to. This show fails and it fails badly. It doesn't even come close. What did I expect from the network that airs "Duck Dynasty". Ugh.
