Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
More of Norman's dark side is revealed in the third episode of A&E's Bates Motel. Anthony Perkins' version of Norman in Hitchcock's classic film entered a fugue state when he dressed as his mother and butchered the innocent. Bates Motel, in a nod to that film, is beginning to explore its own version of Norman's precarious relationship with reality.
The classroom stress meltdown/fainting scene was a nice parallel to last week's torture manga flip-book sequence. For those who don't recall, Norman used the dead Keith Summers' flashlight to scroll through his notebook of terrors in the previous episode.The visual depiction of his mind slowly beginning to mingle images of violence with the sexual stimulation that he clearly feels for his teacher along with brief flashes of his mother was a great way to illustrate Norman's evolving...affliction. Again playing on the idea of his consciousness going on and off, on and off.
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