Bates Motel, Episode 3: "What's Wrong with Norman?"  Image
credit:  A&E/Joseph Lederer  Ladies and gentlemen, it’s
official: The Norman Bates we all know and love (?) has arrived.
But we’ll get to that in a minute.  First, we have Dylan mugging
with a gun in a Bates manor mirror. He’s pointing it. Sticking
it in his pants. Trying out a menacing stare. He may be more
Quick Draw McGraw than Clint Eastwood, but I think Dylan just
became my favorite character. Also, how many layers does he have
on? I count a t-shirt, a flannel, a hoodie, and a leather
jacket. After he’s done posing, Dylan walks into the kitchen,
where Norma asks for his help with motel stuff.  “I’d love to,
but I have a job,” he announces, and Norma(n) looks at him with
such comic shock that I’m waiting for the spit take. Norma asks
what he’ll be doing. “Nothing,” is Dylan’s response, and then
he’s out the door, presumably to go do “nothing.”  “Norman? You
OK?”  A&E/Joseph Lederer  Meanwhile, Norman heads to school,
where a weepy Emma (wearing a