Bates Motel season 1

10 episodes · 2013

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what happens

After finding his father dead, teenager Norman Bates and his mother, Norma, purchase a motel and move to White Pine Bay in search of a new life, but they soon discover this idyllic seaside town hides some deadly secrets.

how it went

Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 75 comments — 32 said when · across 8 episodes.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Hard going most of the way through. Very little of it ever resolves.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

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➖ steady — holds one level all the way

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“BOOM.”
DyslexicPuppy▲ 28about 90–100% inread it ↗
“The whole episode had a very creepy vibe, like when you look at Norman Bates and see a boy, but behind the face you know something isn't right.”
carlwethers▲ 26about 0–15% inread it ↗
“I'm only a few minutes into it, but it looked like they had a huge flatscreen tv in their house in the opening scene.”
BigGreenYamo▲ 13about 0–10% inread it ↗
“I'm only a third of the way through the episode, and as far as I am concerned Norma can go die in a fire.”
dsampson92▲ 12about 0–33% inread it ↗

episodes

4 of 10 with a score

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