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- Blaire Watson only complicates Norma and Norman’s relationship. She acts as a pseudo-mother to him, but also tries to seduce him. This blurs the relationship between sex and authority, and only intensifies Norman’s attraction to his mother. Norman adopts the mother personality and kills the women that Norman is sexually attracted to.
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May 7, 2014 · This is why what “Bates” is doing with her and Norman’s relationship is so fascinating. The two share an uncomfortable closeness, a squirm-inspiring intimacy bent on making the viewer uncomfortable. But in the context of “Bates Motel,” such intimacy makes a perfect, if sick, sense.
Mar 27, 2013 · Is an intimate relationship with his mother something that we might see happen for Norman on “Bates Motel”? Executive producer Kerry Ehrin reveals to The Hollywood Reporter that Norman is disturbed by the fact that he’s looking at his mother in this way, but he still can’t look away.
Mar 18, 2023 · Norma Bates (at least what remains of her) is glimpsed in the shadows of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic Psycho, and later heard through Norman’s own mouth. Her backstory remained a...
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Norman was born to Norma in 1995 and was her only child with second husband Sam Bates. Unlike her relationship with elder son Dylan, Norma constantly devoted more time to Norman and saw him as her favorite son. This led to an intensely close bond with each other, seen as unhealthy by all who knew them - as Norma put it they are "two parts of the sa...
Season 1
After tragedy struck the Bates family, Norma purchased a home that came with a motel and packed up her and her 17-year old son, Norman, to have a fresh beginning in White Pine Bay, Oregon. When they arrived, Norma instructed Norman to keep his eyes closed until she told him so, positioning herself on their car, in front of the motel and house. She told him to open his eyes, asking him what he thinks. He told her it was crazy, but she said it wasn’t and that they were going to run the motel to...
Season 2
After Norma got an automatic message from the school about Blaire Watson's death, she asked Norman about the last time he saw her. He admitted that she was going to drive him home but couldn't remember anything else until he was running home through the rain. They went the funeral and Norman took it very hard. Norma and Norman went home and he asked who would do something like this. When she was teaching him how to drive, he drove them to the cemetery and she accused him of having a morbid ob...
Season 3
After spending the summer with his mother, Norman was now 18 years old and still sleeping in the same bed as her. Dylan questioned her about it, saying that it wasn't right. Norman returned to school to begin his year as a sophomore, but refused to get out of the car until Norma forcefully grabbed him out of it in front of his schoolmates. When he hallucinated Blaire Watson while having lunch, he ran home to Norma and told her. It was decided that he should be homeschooled. As they lay in bed...
Season 1
Norma: [to Norman]"It's you and me. It's always been you and me. We belong to each other" Norma:"Norman, did you know that having sex with a woman literally affects her physical being? There are chemicals that are released in a woman's body during and after sex that actually alter her. It's like a science experiment. It affects her mind, okay? That's dangerous stuff. That's not something you want to be dabbling around in for fun" Norma: "I-I know I've said a lot of things, but this is the tru...
Season 2
Norma: "You're a teenager, it's summer. You should be out, I don't know, playing baseball or going to swimming holes or something normal" Norman: "I don't think mourning the death of someone who had been special to you is particularly abnormal!" Norma: "Oh, I am just a little concerned that you seem obsessed with...[looking at Norma's taxidermy animals]...morbidity or something. I mean, you spend your days equally mooning over a dead teacher and taking apart dead animals. It's just weird" Nor...
Season 3
Norman: "You know, I really feel like everything's under control. The school work, the motel, and I'm really okay and I'm going to be dating Emma" Norma: "You are?" Norman: "Mm-hmm" Norma: "When did this happen?" Norman:"Just felt like the right time. I'm 18 now, time to start laying some foundation" [Norma berates Norman after she catches him spying on Annika through her open bathroom window] Norma:"You can't go around peering into guests' bedrooms. It's not normal!" Norma: "You can't keep g...
The opening scene in the series premiereshows a scene from the 1940s movie "His Girl Friday" on the TV. In it Ralph Bellamy discusses his own domineering matriarch to Cary Grant - a parallel to the...Norma and Norman singing "Mr. Sandman" together in the Season 2 episode Shadow of a Doubt after she signs them up for the play at the community theater foreshadows his murder-suicide attempt that r...In the Season 2 episode Meltdown, the film that Norma suggests to Norman that they go see together and then the latter later watches alone is the 1944 psychological thriller film noir Double Indemn...In the Season 3 episode Norma Louise, Norma mentions the children's book The Giving Treein which the tree is really a symbol for the boy's mother. Her willingness to give and give despite getting s...May 10, 2016 · With each passing season, the Norman Bates of “Bates Motel” has unravelled further, bringing the character ever closer to the killer of the “Psycho” movies who lives with his mother’s...
Mar 10, 2015 · With Norma and Norman established as an incredibly close, codependent mother and son, Bates Motel can now go about pushing the two of them closer and closer together. It will return, again...
Apr 24, 2017 · If Bates Motel was the love story between Norma and Norman, then it is a satisfying conclusion, because they’re reunited. They couldn’t be reunited in life, so they were in death. That’s...
