Norman Threatens Alex with an Axe | Bates Motel 

probably the best thing do in that situation

@@t_man7259 *Alex slyly sneaks onto the boat and lowers it while Norman and Norma keep arguing*

Everything about this is perfect.

I think there’s part of it too, though, that Norma knew what Norman was capable of. She was trying to protect him and those around him the only way she knew how. She was obviously lacking in boundaries but I mean, she was in love with her own brother. The only men in her life used and abused her, and she couldn’t let it happen with Norman. And she couldn’t let him use and abuse those around him, or kill them, more rather. So she kept him close with her ~love~, if you will, in order to protect those around him.

agreed

@@joylawson3083 I agree

Norma wasn't jealous of the girls Norman went out with. She was just concerned tht he keeps getting drawn by troubled girls. The only girl she approves of Norman gng out with is Emma which Norman didn't have any feelings for.

Yes, she is...She played the crap out of Norma Bates!!!!!

Vera and Freddie were both honestly so perfect for their roles. The show wouldn’t be the same without them

alice_boerner3 _ totally agree.

They ALL ARE!

I know exactly what you mean, 'cause it feels like Norma brought it upon herself a bit. First of all by smothering him and building this idea in his head that she and them was the only thing that mattered in the world, the only thing that was real. And also for not getting him the help he so desperately needed. It's sad. :(

The reason she did it is because she knew he had psychological problems. That's the reason she kept him so close

Hathz agreed she mad a crucial life dead mistake she wanted to control and protect she was unstable herself and made decisions out of fear not reason or logic many people make mistakes like this over protective parents mamas boys, raising snow flakes it’s selfish and unhealthy some know they are doing it some ignore it some Don’t realize the harm until it’s too late

Thank you!!! I've been trying to explain this to the people I recommended this series to that are hating on Norman & he's behavior in sizon 4. Everything he said at that dinner table is true, he had no life outside of her & now that she had someone she gives Norman the speech about having room for more than one person in her life & the whole"he loves me & I love him & that's that"! I used to ship Nomero but then season 4 happened. If Romero hadn't been the reason for killing the spark between Norma & Norman I would've still liked him.

Exactly

Yup, Exactly!!!!

@@LibraChick43 I totally agreed with Norman here, she has controlled him her whole life and babied him and she would get jealous if he found a girlfriend, no wonder he went crazy!

I agree! Norman might be messed up, but he is most definately not stupid.

Oh, yeah, Norman’s right his mother is a hypocrite because she has never been supportive or happy with him having or wanting a romantic relationship with a girl or woman who wasn’t her and she thinks it’s fair of her to demand that he be supportive of her with Alex when she hasn’t once done that for him?

​@knowledgegathererdraftsave1979 yeah but she didn't end up killing him over it

Really underrated. This show needs awards for the best cast. Every single one of them❤️

Both Freddie and Vera deserved awards for the portrayal of their characters in this show. Both were fantastic.

I guess it needed more recognition. Not enough people know about this show.

He wrote this episode

@@djanne7014 Wow, that's incredible

That is cool, I didn't know he did that. Excellent writing! (I don't usually pay attention to the credits, but I need to go back and rewatch).

So perfectly said. Thank you for sharing.

Lmaoff 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

LOL

Nice one.

I disagree. It is messed up but the reason she treated him how she did is because of the blackouts where he would kill people. It's a messed up situation, it's also not real, but when watching this I felt for Norma. People change, she changed for the better. Norman could have changed for the better too.

@@contorta960 after re watching the whole thing actually I agree with you. It makes sense.

@@doinalright4552 after re-watching myself can see it from the other way too. The very first episode is messed up. The previous motel owner did deserved what he got a hundred times over, but they should of called the police after, (before ideally) but not cover up how she did, including Norman. And there should of been professional help as soon as free from the abusive ex. But it's a show and we'd not have one without some craziness lol.

I agree, Doin. Unfortunately, not everybody will see it, but many of us, see through the characters.

I love you for understanding Norman.

I agree.

Yeah. Don't hurt her feelings. It's always been like that.

You hit it on the head.

Hence her narcesstic personality. She isn't healthy.

Absolutely hilarious in a really dysfunctional and dark way! Goes down in the history of awkward dinners.

Romero: *stays calm throughout it anyways

Lmaoff that was funny!!!!!! 😂😂😂

@@LibraChick43 😂

That part cracked me up 😂

Yes he does, you should check the video, Bates Motel: inside the casting room. It's funny what Romero did during "casting"

Yes

That’s what drew me into this show in the first place

Taylor Pack IKR I WAS JUST SAYING THAT IN MY HEAD!!!!!!

I think Nestor is better looking

+Jake Jones It's a shame, really. Romero was one of my favorite characters.

he could have been a better dad than sam @@Joe T

realistically that's probably the best thing to do in a situation like that.

Lol😂

Norma was just trying to protect other people and Norman from himself.

​@@distantraveller9876 Nah, you just think women lack agency, accountability. They are nor children, and when I realised that and called out a woman in my life for her BS she respected me more: because you have to give respect, even if harsh in nature, to get respect. She coddled Norman too much, it is in part her fault. She had problems too but that does not diminish this fact. It is thankfully fiction though, but if I were Norman's dad I would put a stop to that crap and tell his mother she is not being normal and to give him space to breathe. Even if a son hated me for it I would put a stop to it all for his sake. Coddling is a form of abuse imo. I am not a bad guy, will save 1.50 each week when my boy is 1, 2.50 when 2, 3.50 when 3 and so on maybe even increasing into the 20s if he goes to college and gets a part time job to supplement his savings. I will not let his mother mess him up though, and women sadly often mess up kids. If he grabbed her or screamed at her like Norman did to Norma btw, his teeth would be knocked out. Men love differently but it is still love.

The only girl Norman really loved was Bradley who used him for sex and she was against her because of it . And Emma married his brother after dating him for a while . I wouldn't want my son to be around girls like that either ...

Exactly!!!

Not at all she was overprotective by fear that he can kill people. 🤦 And now that he is in the mental institution she accord to herself to leave her life, that she sacrificed in taking care of a dangerous psycho

@@mjmank4475 IK it’s just a show but if that’s the case then why didn’t she tell him about killing his own father, that alone would’ve probably made Norman understand better why she kept close to the hip and even why she didn’t want him dating. Instead she just kept everything to herself and acted shocked when things went south when it could’ve been avoided had she just said anything. Like it took her forever to tell Dylan who his actual dad was and it was only bc he started to hang out with him and she got ptsd, which is her fault again because he kept asking her what’s up and even almost got KILLED for them and it still wasn’t enough for her to tell him the truth and since she kept shutting him out he opted out in believing her brother first, either way she got what she deserved for the longest time 😂

It is just a deep relationship they had, not a superficial one, like most families have.

@@Dzanarika1 no they were emotionally incestuous

I honestly forgot the girls name, (Not Emma but the other girl from Norman’s high school) but wasn’t Norma jealous of her? In some way. It’s like Norma didn’t want him to be with anybody but her. But when Norma gets into a relationship, all of a sudden She doesn’t like that.

@@havingteawiththedevil you mean Bradley Martin lol

That's nonsense ... Bradley used him for sex after her father died and then she threw him away after that one night and told him that what happened between them meant nothing and she just needed someone for sex ... how can you blame Norma for doing what she did to protect her Son from girls like that ?

Dylan was right when he told Norman to get help for himself bc Norma would never do it for him. He was ill but she allowed him to grow worse bc of her codependency and she was so unfair to Dylan.

I think it might be either what you said or shes afraid that Norman might kill another girl🤔🤔

Sometimes too much love blinds us to the point that we don't realize that it is affecting us too much just like norma and norman. Norma tried to believe all her delusions that norman is not dangerous but because of that it ended up killing her.

Normero ♥️ forever

Yeah sure, but that's boring heh I think we know we're watching a tragedy since before we started the first episode.

Lmao

Gabrielle Center Exactly that's what she did now she wants to leave the Lion in the cage & gets angry that he doesn't do what she wants anymore

When?

He had blackouts she had to do what she did ... dude even killed his own father of all people .

because he is the only man according to him who can love her

Honey, cause he's psycho.

Jake Jones He probably could have been a normal person had she not sheltered him and actually helped him right from the start I know their would be no story but I'm just saying

T_ man yeah, but Norma is not a normal person as well. She's pretty messed up and needed help too. Im not saying she was right or it was ok, but y'all are blaming her too easily.

breemadness your right to be honest I feel her missed up childhood most likely made her afraid and or ashamed to seek help I actually thought they were all victims not just Norman

in all fairness norman killed his dad and norma kept him close due to her own childhood and her two marriages werent the best either Normans Dad, Sam he used to beat norma and was a drunk. Norman started having blackouts during that period of when he was growing up seeing his father beat his mother.

I'm completely agree....

Finally, someone is seeing what is going on between the two. It was Norma alone that was responsible for his messed up mind and mental health.

@@Dzanarika1 I wouldn’t say it was Norma “alone”. A lot of factors went into Norman’s fractured psyche. His father was a big player, Norman watched his mother get raped and abused for years and felt he was her only escape and that was what created their oddly close relationship in the first place. Norma was definitely a part of the problem but she wasn’t the only part of it.

What if a man wants both from a woman?

Anthony Perkins died in 1992. Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert from LOST) is the one in this scene with Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore

he looks nothing like anthony perkins who died a long time ago! actually norman does kinda look more like anthony perkins

No but they do look similar, I think It's their eyes.

@@sfinn85 I would doubt if he was still alive they would have had him do a cameo in an episode

It was Norma's fault for never letting norman talk to any other girls other than herself, of course, he wouldn't understand Norma getting married to a person when she made it clear that their bond cant be broken.

You didn't get anything out of the Bates Motel, did you?! That is fine, life will catch up with you, you are still young.

@@Dzanarika1 WTF u are talking about...

Norma literally kept feeding into his delusions by not ever telling him the truth about what happened and why she does what she does. She got jealous and made him walk home because he had sex with Bradley. Always had to know where and who he’s with. She made her bed

Sadly...

I thought the same thing!

Norman, maybe.

Season 4, Episode 8 'Unfaithful'. Freddie Highmore wrote this episode

Please re-watch the show, you might change your mind. You must have watched it in a hurry.

I agree with you I think that Norma loves her son so much that she always wanted to protect her from everything she wanted to recreate with him what she lived with her brother "all one for the other" to make that one "I think that norma had his lot of problems with the men and that norman was always for her and that was too close to him which makes that at the beginning of the serie one wonders if norma does not have a to girlfriend to his fiks rather than to mother but in view of all that is produced "murder" "humiliations" "fear" that norman did she lost this link that united them is the fact that it is a pine view the livery of his problems and give him the taste of life to live and not worry

@@Persei1 for real lmao it's funny how they're blaming her for protecting him but if she didn't do that and he got hurt because of it they'll be calling her uncaring . They're blaming her for not wanting him dating those girls ... 1/Bradley - Used Norman for sex immediately after her father died and then she told him that it meant nothing and she had no feelings for him and broke his heart ( even tho Norma warned him and told him that Bradley was using him ) . 2/Emma - Married his brother after dating him for a while . 3/Cody - Problematic and also she knew Emma shouldn't be swimming yet she cheered her on to do it which almost killed her . But sure according to these Norma haters we should put the blame on the one and only person who was protecting him all along lol .

Wrong

He correctly said that Norma deserved to have a life partner, but Norman just couldn't handle it properly.

Lark Turner HAHA

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