bates motel s1e3 ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140330223441/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/bates-motel/whats-wrong-with-norman-1x3/5/

HALLWAY, RUSHING
Norma: "...No idea if they found anything. It was one of the most horrible experiences of my life, I couldn't do anything..."
Norman: "Did they find anything?"
Norma: "Did you hit your head when you fell over on it? I just said no."
Norman: "Yeah, but did they find anything in the house?"
Norma: "If we weren't escaping from a hospital right now I would take you to a hospital. No."



HOME
There is something eternally teenage-boy guilt about the way Norman tears his ass up the stairs the second they get home, like just launches directly up the stairs as if she's going to beat him to it and find his dirty magazines or whatever.
Norman: (Whoosh.)
Norma: "What's up?"
Norman: "I have to change clothes and lie down and take a shower and do homework!"




p7
Ethan: "Everything should settle back down now. You want a beer?" Dylan: "Uh, yeah." There's a rustle in the bushes, but Dylan's fear turns to joy when he realizes it's a pheasant, and he can impress somebody with something for the first time like ever. Something about the smile with which he shoulders the rifle -- like it's turned back into just a gun, from whatever it was before -- made me realize I am pretty much completely on Dylan's side from here on out. Normal isn't always good, but good is always normal. /?/



p10
Norman: "Mother!?"
Dylan: "No. Just me."

For the second time today, somebody takes the remote away from Norman to get his attention.

Dylan: "Can I give you some advice?  You gotta cut that shit out.  'Mother?'  It's just weird."
Norman: "Whereas I guess calling your mom a whore is perfectly normal?"

You can look at the two of them on that couch, with the old owner's old black and white TV and just imagine them being real for a second. Or like, I already thought Dylan was a good idea, narratively and psychologically, but for a minute you can see how his need to be a man and Norman's desperate need for a man would collide in this way: Like another unwanted, unwelcome father figure, but one who -- being Norma's son as well -- actually makes more sense in the dynamic. Like maybe it will work out.   Dylan thinks this too, although not in words.  He flows, in the absence of Norma, toward his brother, and says the best line of the entire episode:

Dylan: "I'm sorry you tried to kill me the other night."

It's great because it sounds hilariously passive-aggressive, but really it's just the best way of addressing and describing what went down: Now that you've mentioned the whole "whore" thing, by the way, I feel bad that that happened and that I beat you down. But what is sort of brusquely tender in the moment becomes something entirely different.

Norman: "I hardly think I tried to kill you."
Dylan: "You came at me with a meat tenderizer..."
Norman: "Oh, now did I."
You can see Dylan make note of this and get weird and a little sad about it, and then stow that entire line of thought, all in one second.