Bates Motel Season 1, Episode 10 Review – “Midnight”
Bates Motel’s freshman season comes to a close with an appropriately melodramatic, underwhelming finale.

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Bates Motel’s freshman season comes to a close with an appropriately melodramatic, underwhelming finale.
Bates Motel dials up the camp (again) to uneven effect in “Underwater”.
Bates Motel gets wackier and wackier – and not exactly for the better – with “A Boy and His Dog”.
The dichotomy between the quality of performances and writing continues to make Bates Motel a frustrating watch.
“The Truth” kicks up the camp on Bates Motel – and for the most part, it works!
Bates Motel hits the mid-point of its freshman season with the particularly mundane “Ocean View”.
Norman gets laid in Bates Motel’s best episode yet.
Bates Motel is starting to get weird – and is all the better for it.
“Nice Town You Picked, Norma…” is careful and meticulously paced… but to what end?
Bates Motel begins… and doesn’t quite justify its own presence, though there’s plenty of intriguing pieces to see develop.