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SEASON
Bates Motel - Season 2
The second season of Bates Motel consisted of 10 episodes and premiered on A&E. In Season 2, Norman fixates on Miss Watson';;;s death, while Normas mysterious past starts to haunt the family. Meanwhile, Normans mother Norma struggles to keep the motel open with a bypass threatening to open just miles away, while his older half-brother Dylan deals with a disturbing discovery about his true parentage.
15 October 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
11 May 1972, Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
6 March 1968, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1978, Canada
1969, Cardiff, Wales, UK
March 03, 2014
Season 2's opener feels slow and repetitive, as if Bates Motel is stuck on a loopFebruary 28, 2014
[It] returns with similar craziness [to Those Who Kill], while still facing the same pitfalls about being hamstrung by where it fits into the movie's universe.March 04, 2014
If you like your thrillers seasoned with a little sharp-edged wit and can embrace the joy of some very heightened drama, then this is the show for you.March 03, 2014
Even if you're not as crazy about Psycho as I am, Bates Motel has a delirious allure, and its name is Vera Farmiga.March 03, 2014
Bates Motel remains such a well-acted show that it discourages casual viewing more and more with each episode.March 04, 2014
Bates Motel sings in its second season opener, moving both closer to the Psycho mythos and further away at the same time.March 03, 2014
A&E's Bates Motel has managed to cut its way into discussions of the very best the crowded horror genre has to offer.March 03, 2014
The show is very well-acted and, for those who like such things, suitably scary.March 03, 2014
In Freddie Highmore's depiction of the adolescent Norman, it's possible to see the gears turning in his head, to see the normal development process going hideously off-track, paving the way for what we know becomes of the adult.