Good news for fans of ‘Bates Motel’. Shortly before Monday night’s episode aired, A&E announced that the network has already renewed the series for a second season. This means that those of you on the borderline about whether to dive into the show or not can rest assured that any unresolved plot twists this season will not go unanswered. Now, let’s take a look at Episode 4, ‘Trust Me’. (Spoilers to follow.)
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Another week, another two episodes of ‘Happy Endings’. This past week saw a feud between sisters, a feud between two food truck owners, and a feud between Brad and Robo-Brad. All in a day’s work for this wonderful, bizarre show.
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‘Game of Thrones’ is a show with so many characters and storylines that a one-hour season premiere episode can’t possibly set the stage for all of them. Thus, this week’s second episode felt an awful lot like the second half of the premiere, and spent most of its time filling us in on what everyone else has been up to.
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‘Doctor Who’ has been quite mythology-heavy lately, and it was high time the series gave us a nice one-off story that we could simply sit back and enjoy. Saturday’s episode, ‘The Rings of Akhaten’, provides us with just that, but it’s not quite as satisfying as I would have hoped.
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As this season has made abundantly clear, the current writers of ‘Community’ are at their best when they focus on Greendale. Thursday’s episode, ‘Herstory of Dance’, proves that assertion ably. It also puts the absurdity on the backburner in favor of real character moments, and in the process ends up being one of the best episodes of the season.
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As if one new TV series designed as a prequel/reboot of an iconic serial killer movie franchise (A&E’s ‘Bates Motel‘) weren’t enough, NBC attempts to pull off the same trick with ‘Hannibal’, which brings cinema’s most infamous evil psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter, to the small screen. Given NBC’s track record, and the inherent limitations that any major broadcast network faces with material this dark, I’ll be honest that I went into the show with pretty low expectations. Color me surprised, therefore, that last Thursday’s pilot episode was pretty damn terrific.
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‘Bates Motel’ continues to impress with its third episode, ‘What’s Wrong with Norman’. We’re only three weeks in, but already signs are pointing to how Norman Bates will turn into the psychopath we know he’ll eventually become. (Spoilers to follow!)
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After recapping the pilot episode, fellow Bonus View contributor Josh Zyber has turned the keys to ‘Bates Motel’ over to me to provide commentary on the remainder of the season. We’re a couple weeks behind, but let’s try to catch up before tonight’s new episode.
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The funny thing about HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’, which returned for its third season on Sunday, is that this is one of the few shows on television where an episode can go by in which basically nothing at all happens, and yet fans will still regard it as “epic” and “awe inspiring.”
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So, what was all that build-up for? The fourth season? Because the ‘Walking Dead’ third season finale left me feeling like there has to be another episode after this. It falls just as flat as many of the filler episodes that we saw this season.
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