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Review: Bates Motel 1.8 “A Boy and His Dog”
Last night’s episode of Bates Motel featured Norma (Vera Farmiga) trying to flirt her way to prosperity and out of trouble, Norman (Freddie Highmore) dealing with a therapist, Emma’s Dad (Ian Hart)...
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Review: Bates Motel 1.9 “Underwater”
This week’s episode of Bates Motel was all about marijuana. No sooner has Norma (Vera Farmiga) recovered from finding the decaying corpse of Deputy Shelby in her bed then she’s having to deal with the...
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Review: Bates Motel 1.10 “Midnight”
(Have you seen this episode yet? If not, you might not want to read this review. Spoiler warning!) Well, we all knew that was going to happen, didn’t we? To recap: During last night’s episode of...
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Review: Bates Motel 2.1 “Gone But Not Forgotten”
Bates Motel is back! During its first season, Bates Motel became something of an obsession for me. I started out skeptical that a television series that also doubled as a prequel Psycho was a good or...
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Review: Bates Motel 2.2 “Shadow of a Doubt”
I have to commend Bates Motel for directly referencing Alfred Hitchcock with the title of its latest episode. Shadow of a Doubt is not only one of Hitchcock’s finest films but it’s also one that...
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Review: Bates Motel 2.3 “Caleb”
Well, that’s certainly icky. Regardless of whatever else may have happened on this week’s episode of Bates Motel, it will always be remembered as the episode where things got even ickier than before....
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TV Review: Bates Motel 2.4 “Check-Out”
As this week’s episode of Bates Motel came to an end, my immediate response was to say: “Now, that’s what I’ve been talking about!” Much as Norman Bates could never quite decide if he was himself or if...
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TV Review: Bates Motel 2.5 “The Escape Artist”
After I posted my extremely laudatory review of last week’s episode of Bates Motel, I received a very interesting comment on Facebook from the veteran horror director and screenwriter Alan Ormsby....
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TV Review: Bates Motel 2.6 “Plunge”
Now, I know what you’re saying. “Gee, Lisa — late much?” Well, yes, this review of the latest episode of Bates Motel is rather late and for that I apologize. I have spent this week dealing with the...
View ArticleGhosts of Sundance Past #3: Crown Heights (dir by Matt Ruskin)
The 2017 film, Crown Heights, tells the story of two friends and a miscarriage of justice. In 1980, a 19 year-old Trinidadian named Colin Warner (Lakeith Stanfield) is arrested in the Crown Heights...
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