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Bates Motel, Ep. 1.04: “Trust Me” functions perfectly on its own terms, without any knowledge of Hitchcock’s masterpiece

Anyone who’s seen Psycho and watches Bates Motel brings his or her own insights, prejudices, fears, and collective memories into the interpretation, and that’s the biggest challenge the showrunners face. The greatest coup the writers of Bates Motel pull each and every week is that they constantly surprise us by having the characters do the unexpected.

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