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Showing posts with label Freddie Highmore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freddie Highmore. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 March 2017

"Bates Motel" Final season - the best bits

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This frustratingly inconsistent show is going out in style. Episode 1's opening sequence was masterly, thanks to writer/producer Kerr...
Thursday, 17 March 2016

If US TV wants an iconic bad guy - they cast a British actor

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"Homeland" "Billions" - Damian Lewis ("Wolf Hall", "Band of Brothers") "Bates Motel" - F...
Wednesday, 16 March 2016

"Bates Motel" Season 4 Review

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Things are finally getting interesting in White Pine Bay. After a dull, hackneyed second season and a promising third, Season 4 could be a c...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Things I liked about "Bates Motel" Season 3

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Norma's mugging of the camera - extended reaction times/frozen expressions (usually after one of Norman's revelations/confessions)...
Wednesday, 11 March 2015

"Bates Motel" Season 3, Episode 1, "A death in the family", review

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After the disappointing, all-over-the-shop second season, I vowed not to watch another season of "Bates Motel". The producers (als...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

"Bates Motel" Season 2, Episode 2, A&E, Will I keep watching? Maybe This Time...

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"Bates Motel" is at its best when goes for quirky/unhinged.  Like... Norma asking her gyno questions about blackouts; the "M...
Saturday, 8 March 2014

The problem with TV second seasons

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Okay, the first season was great, there was a teaser to get you to watch the second season.... then you tune in..... It could go either way...
Tuesday, 4 March 2014

"Bates Motel" Season 2, Episode 1, A&E, Was it worth the wait?

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No, not after this season opener. If it wasn't for the screen charisma of Farmiga and Highmore, I don't think I'd be bothered. ...
Wednesday, 8 May 2013

"Bates Motel" Season 1, Episode 8 "A Boy and his Dog", A and E , TV series, review, no spoilers

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How appropriate for Mr Decody, Emma's taxidermist dad, to have a Hitchcock like English accent. Norman has a new hobby - taxidermy ... t...
Wednesday, 17 April 2013

"Bates Motel" Episode 5 "Ocean View" TV series, A and E, recap, review

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Emma Decody (Olivia Cooke), super sleuth (Nancy Drew avec wheelie oxygen tank) is back. I've missed her. She shares Norman's taste i...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013

"Bates Motel" new tv series on A&E - Worth a look

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This could have been a tawdry piece of crap but the cast and the script rise above this. Vera Farmiga as mama Bates (starred with Cloon...