Bates Motel - A Death in the Family - Advance Preview + Teasers

It’s best to make your reservations now because the Bates Motel re-opens their doors to the public this Monday for it’s third season! However because we aren’t the general public, A&E have been kind enough to allow us at a look through the season opener. We obviously can’t say much so here is a very short review (because I suck at writing without giving away major spoilers that should be saved for the episode).

Episode 1 titled ‘A Death in the Family’ does not pick-up where Season 2 cut off. Whilst it is unknown how much time has passed, I am guessing it has been a few weeks. Things seem to have settled down a lot. Norman is about to start his senior year, Dylan has taken a new approach to drug trafficking, Norma is just a lot more relaxed than she was last season and Emma is still around the motel (which tells me that she decided to stay after considering leaving last season).

A lot of fans (Myself included) felt that the show started to go downhill last season with the drug trafficking storyline and all of the new faces popping into the show. Whilst I can honestly say that the Season 3 opener is a step-up from last season, it isn’t by much. The episode did not feel like a season opener. It was not very memorable. I fear that if this sort of quality continues, the show will lose even more viewers than they lost last year.

I will be back Monday night after the episode airs for a more in depth review and recap.

Now that that’s out of the way, who wants some teasers?!?!

- Although we don’t meet them, we find out a little more about Norma and Caleb’s parents.
- Emma shares some game changing news with Norman which could effect their future.
- A new guest arrives at the Motel who Norman quickly finds himself fancying.
- Caleb returns and is desperate to build a relationship with Dylan.

Check out Raina Reveals later for a bonus teaser.

To round out this article, I thought it’d be fun to play a game. Here’s a few dialogue teasers. Tell me in the comments who you think said what.

- “I’m only telling you this because you might need to know for some legal documents some day”

- “You can’t be skulking around in the dark peering into the guests bathrooms! It’s not normal!”

- “I followed you up here so I could talk to you. I didn’t want to go to the motel because I knew you wouldn’t want that”.

- “I can’t protect you anymore, you know that right? You’ll be on your own”.

- “Once you start touching somebodies body the rest just kind of melts away and then you’re just there. Two bodies. Sometimes it even feels good.”