Bates Motel: It Ends...not for me.

I think one of my great failures with this blog is abandoning my following of A&E’s Bates Motel (2013-2017). I recall pimping its premiere (It’s Coming) on the blog, really psyched about the possibilities of the show. There was no reason I quit following it. I didn’t mind it at all the way it updated and changed how Norman and Norma’s story differed from Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). Again, we will always have his film and the subsequent sequels with Anthony Perkins returning to the role that forever haunted (and defined) his career. So there’s room to take chances, do fresh things, go places with these characters. I was all for it. The mood of the show, its seasonal dampening affect with this presumptive darkness and cold grey. Its neon, pervasive with those blues and greens, and its color palette taking from the surroundings and quite influential on structural architecture, décor, and the clothes locals wear. With the blog, I always seem at my best anyway when these shows come to me later after they’ve met their fans on first run. Perhaps this isn’t always the best decision because experiencing a show as it exists, instead of after it’s over, gives websites and blogs that “hot off the press” active life it otherwise doesn’t have. But while many shows’ fans are concluding them and moving on to whatever was next, I am often starting them for the first time. Others reflect while I am getting introduced. And in time I will dedicate my little blog to this show, giving it everything I have, my all. And this show deserves it. Great final episodes, though. Yeah, stupid me caught the end instead of the show during its *entirety*. I did watch the first season. And it was noteworthy. And I will eventually watch the next four. And that will be quite a worthwhile experience I do believe…