Warning: full spoilers for the episode follow...
Mother wins, unfortunately that means that everyone else loses.
Ah, this is the Bates Motel I want. The focus is right where it needs to be: Norman Bates and his apple pie-baking and dangerously inappropriate mother. To some degree, the show has been toying with the notion that perhaps in this version of the tale Norman’s destiny could be averted. I don’t believe that series co-creators Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin ever really intended to have Norman turn a corner and become a solid citizen of the world. The illusion that redemption was possible for this boy so full of love and rage is part of what fueled Bates initially, though. It gave the show the tension-filled edge of a Greek Tragedy. We understand the changes that would need to happen in order for Norman to be saved, we can see all of the big and small choices that are leading him down his murky and murderous path, but we are powerless to stop fate from unfolding as it must, as we know it will.
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