‘Bates Motel’ season 2, episode 2 preview: How can Norma distract her son?

During tonight’s premiere episode of “Bates Motel,” we saw Norma Bates suffer through what was a pretty terrible time for her. After all, this was a chance to really start to see how she was trying to handle her son in the wake of Miss Watson’s death … and let’s just say that it was not a very easy thing for her to do.

So what is going to do moving forward with him? Apparently, part of it involves giving him some sort of distraction. The next new episode is going to be entitled “Shadow of a Doubt,” and if you look below, you can get a few more details all about what to expect:

“Norma tries to distract Norman from his obsession with Miss Watson by joining a play. Bradley turns to Norman for help when she has to escape a dire situation. Romero is pressured to make an arrest for the murder. A new player at work has Dylan and Remo on edge.”

At least this episode sounds like it is going to do a little bit of a better job of establishing the show’s equilibrium. We understand that Vera Farmiga is great and has an Emmy nomination, but this premiere almost tried too hard to justify putting Freddie Highmore in the Supporting Actor category, and then also putting Farmiga in as the lead. It was still a good show, but one that was trying a little too hard to make Bradley happen versus the people who we really care about.

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