Bates Motel: Season 1, Episode 6 "The Truth"

Bates Motel: Season 1, Episode 6 "The Truth"

April 22, 2013


SPOILERS AHEAD!



Let it be known that the truth has been revealed! In this aptly-titled episode of Bates Motel, “The Truth” is one adrenaline-laced episode. The Chinese sex slave story, which many viewers found to be a silly subplot, comes to an abrupt end here. I love the interplay between Norman, Norma, and Dylan. Norma manages to become even crazier and I love the new protective attitude that Dylan developed for his little brother (but I am not sure if that is going to last long). Those who stayed to the end got treated with a bombshell that will affect the relationships of these characters moving forward. I will discuss that further in my last paragraph. This episode is briskly-paced, features great character development, and has some great action pieces.



Dylan is forced to confront his boss, Gil to recount the story of what happened to his partner. Gil lauds Dylan for his actions and rewards him with a new partner, Remo (a very juicy performance by Ian Tracey). Norma is having a hard time facing reality that her boyfriend actually was involved in a sex ring involving the Chinese girl, Jiao. Emma wants to get the FBI involved, but Norma vehemently refuses. Officer Shelby stops by the motel and discovers Jiao in one of the rooms with possible consequences for all characters involved. Dylan wants Norman to move in with him on the account of Norma being crazy and now he doubts Norma’s recollection of how their father died. That is when Norma finally tells Dylan the truth.



As you see, lots and lots of crazy stuff happens. Whether you like the whole subplot with Shelby and the sex slaves, it seemingly ends with this episode. The last fifteen minutes are bonkers because it really turns into a horrifying cat-and-mouse game with Dylan and Shelby, with Dylan emerging as the victor. RIP Shelby (or not). Shelby was a fine character, if a little underdeveloped. He was played well by Mike Vogel. The shocking reveal where Norman killed Sam Bates unknowingly after he beat Norma is a nice, unexpected surprise. Now we truly understand why Norma acts the way she does. She needs to protect Norman. If he was to black out again, who knows who could be next. The episode does not feature much of Emma or Bradley at all, but this is an important, family-centric episode.



My Grade: A

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Image
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” Ah, wise words from our new young friend, Ferris Bueller. In John Hughes’s 1986 film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off , all Ferris wants to do is take a day and have fun. That is the most simplistic theme the movie has. You can go deeper, but the main takeaway is that it is okay to have fun. That is a motto I have taken to heart. I really loved the film. People consider The Breakfast Club to be Hughes’s best and most important movie. That’s a fine statement to make, but I would personally rank the film number two behind this particular one. The teen characters are instantly relatable, it has a memorable antagonist for the children, and this is basically a thirty-year-old travel guide for Chicago. Just how Woody Allen creates his movies as love letters for New York, this is applicable for John Hughes. A Chicago love letter!   Like all of his films, Hughes wrote...
Read more

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Image
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) The James Bond franchise is one of those franchises that will never die. It has been going strong since the first movie rolled out in the early 1960’s, and new James Bond movies are still produced today. What makes this series unique is they use multiple actors to play the titular character over the years. They all bring their own gravitas to the role, and each Bond is a different man when compared to each other (although the martini, shaken not stirred and the beautiful women among other things remain a constant.) So my first James Bond review for this blog is 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me. This wasn’t my first look at the series, but it was my first look at the older movies. I really liked what I saw. This is an old-fashioned story that combines a spy drama and an action-packed war movie into one package. Like many of the older Bond movies, the story can get borderline preposterous. The cheesiness of the plot did come to grow on me after awhile, even...
Read more

Table for Five (1983)

Image
Table for Five (1983) I can guarantee that ninety percent of my readers here have not seen this tear-jerking melodrama 1983’s Table for Five , yet alone heard of it. Hopefully after reading my kind words, you will be somewhat intrigued by this movie. When doing my research for the film, I was shocked to see how vastly underrated the movie is. There are only a few reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, hardly any information on Wikipedia or Google-hardly anything out there in this vast Internet landscape. Then, why on earth is this movie so good? Sure, maybe some folks will say the movie is just a predictable Lifetime TV movie, but honestly it is much more than that. There are some elements that makes this film seem destined for the television at times, but to me it is much more than that. I consider the movie to be an honest, emotional portrayal about fatherhood and family. Directed by Robert Lieberman, this film is about a man named J.P Tannen (Jon Voight) who fails at being fathe...
Read more