Bates Motel (TV Series) Marion (2017) User Reviews

Welcome to The End

[carsonwhale · 10/10 · 28 March 2017]

This is the episode fans of the show have expected since the beginning and it definitely delivered, playing out differently than everyone expected.

To start it off, Dylan and Emma finally learn the thing that I knew would come back to bite them in the midst of their happiness and comfort. Norma is dead, and Dylan will realize the truth about the matter if he hasn't already. No sign Romero or Chick in this episode, as there was to many other things going on with Norman that deserve the entire runtime of this week's episode.

The episode mainly revolves around Marion Crane, (played by Rihanna) being at the Bates Motel, as well as Norman struggling to deal with the fake Norma he has created in his mind. It was awesome to finally see the truth revealed to himself, as fake Norma tells him what has been done for his own "protection." On the other end, both of Sam's relationships fall apart and he is left alone, waiting for Marion at the Bates Motel. The twist at the end is Sam being killed in the famous shower scene, as opposed to Marion. Norman tries his best to accept he's crazy and dismiss Norma, who continuously steps into his life. As you could guess it doesn't work. After setting up a near frame for frame remake of the original psycho shower scene with Marion, Sam gets the punishment at the end of the episode, leaving Norman with a bloody mess. You can see the terror in his eyes as he asks, "Mother, what have I done?"

This episode amazing start to finish. Norman has now concioussly killed someone, marking the beginning of the end. These last four epsiodes of Bates Motel are sure to be a suspenseful ride, and I can't wait to see what happens next. 10/10

Brilliant!!

[vrcotier · 10/10 · 1 April 2017]

The episode I've been waiting for! Brilliantly done with a twist that will leave you cheering! Faithfully following the master I thought I knew what was coming. I was tricked but knew they had to move in a different direction. Then, sweet payment for the wait! Best season ever!

A twisted re-imagining of a classic

[AdamDroge · 9/10 · 28 March 2017]

"Psycho" is my all-time favorite movie. I don't need to tell you why. That would take to long, anyways. But because "Psycho" is my all- time favorite movie, I've really enjoyed "Bates Motel." The goal for this show has never been to remake "Psycho," which I appreciate. Instead they've done their own re-imagining of the iconic story while still maintaining the same tone and feel that made "Psycho" so great. There was a lot of fluff in seasons 1-3, but those who were patient with the show were rewarded with a phenomenal season 4 that was one of the best seasons of a TV show that I may have ever seen.

Quite frankly, they could've ended the show with season 4 and I would've been perfectly happy. Except they purposely left a few strings hanging to setup a final season, mainly with Alex and Dylan. So we carry on.

For the first few episodes, I was all in. This was a great final season that had me loving all the dynamics with everyone. Then they introduced a character that they called Sam Loomis. That made me slam on the brakes. There's supposed to be 10 years before the death of Norma and the events of Marion Crane and Sam Loomis with the Bates Motel. What were they doing? And Sam Loomis is now an unlikable character who is cheating on his wife? With Rihanna?!?!?! That's not right.

So let's talk about Rihanna. She is a singer. A pretty awful singer as of late who's always been overrated in my mind. She's had just as much success on the Billboard charts as people like Michael Jackson, Madonna, The Beatles and Elvis Presley. That's just wrong. But as awful of a singer as she is, she's an even worse actress. "Battleship" is one of the worst movies of all-time in my opinion and that's in part due to Rihanna being in the star role and how bad of a job she does.

You don't ever cast Rihanna in your movie or your TV show. You just don't do it. Especially not in an iconic role. Apparently the writers of the show learned that Rihanna was a huge fan and thus reached out to her and the rest is history. I honestly don't care how much she loves the show, she should've never been on this show, certainly not as Marion Crane. That was one of the dumbest decisions ever.

Enter this episode. I was pretty angry at the show heading into this because Rihanna, as was expected, did a pretty awful job as Marion Crane, one of the most iconic characters in movie history. It was a disgrace to this show. So I was expecting to hate this episode. And for a good portion of time, it was going just as expected. Rihanna enters the motel. She is hungry for food. Norman goes to the house to make her food and Mother gets mad at him. Then he goes back and talks to Rihanna for a while before she goes into her room. She gets naked while Norman is watching and goes into the shower. This is the moment where Norman is supposed to walk in and kill her and they set it up with an almost shot for shot shower scene...

And he doesn't? Say what?

Yeah, the twist here is that this is completely opposite of the movie. Rihanna walks back into the motel and asks for the guest registry. Norman doesn't give it to her, but instead gives her the address of Sam Loomis, where she goes and learns that he has been a complete dirt bag who never told her that he is married. So Rihanna goes all "B---- Better Have My Money" on his car (go watch the music video if you don't know what I'm talking about) and goes back to Bates Motel where Norman convinces her to run away so that he doesn't sleep with her and end up killing her.

Rihanna leaves and throws her phone away, never to be seen on this show again. Hopefully.

That's actually pretty genius. In the meantime, Norman has started to figure out that Mother is a fake persona that he created, something that I also was nervous about to start out with. But it works. This instead kinda makes Norman even crazier as Mother then confesses that, while she is fake, she's also a part of Norman and they are a team that has to work together. She then convinces Norman to do something that he's never consciously done on his own. Kill a man.

Because, you see, every time Norman has killed, it's been while he's blacked out. The fact that he has now accepted his fate and killed on his own makes him a more disturbing and terrifying character that is more psychotic and crazy as he has ever been.

So instead of Marion being killed in this episode, Sam returns to the Motel where he is the one that suffer's Marion's fate at the hands of Norman. Whereupon Norman responds:

"Mother, what have I done?"

A complete opposite statement than the classic line from "Psycho" after Norman kills Marion, which is, of course, "Mother, what have you done?"

Now with Dylan likely to return to the Bates Motel and Madeleine still very much in the picture, especially now that she knows Norman was telling the truth and will likely come to him to apologize, along with Alex still looming around and Chick figuring in somehow, we've set ourselves up for quite the epic series finale. Let's hope it delivers!

I'm not going to say this was my favorite episode of the show, but given that I went in expecting to hate it, I'm impressed with the direction they took. I think Hitchcock would be pleased.

Brilliant reimagining of a classic

[robytdd · 9/10 · 19 January 2022]

Getting closer to the finale Bates Motel maintains an extraordinary level, from all point of views.

The famous scene of the classic Hitchcock's movie is just floating around, waiting to materialize on the screen. And when it does it's different but equally powerful, also because it comes along significant character development.

A great episode, of an excellent series.

Blood Shower from Inside

[helakern-23740 · 10/10 · 28 March 2017]

Who has not seen Psycho? If you are one of those people maybe this chapter is not so shocking, or in any case maybe it's much more. "Marion" marks a before and after in Bates Motel, now there is a free way for this series, that although it had already created its own personality from the beginning, now if it marks an outline in which it shouts in the face "This not Is Pshyco. "And it's fine, it's very well since it faithfully respects the original material, but doesn't want to be a copy of this, Norman Bates's story is a rather rich and interesting, and since last season have developed more the concept, Introducing ourselves to what this disorder and Norman's mind implies. Bates Motel has taken a very big risk in this chapter, but a necessary risk, we can appreciate the value of the series and enjoy the same way the shower scene because if, that scene is here, picture to picture, but you have to know something, if you thought that the plot twist of Norma's death was big, wait to see this.

Wow, Rihanna sucks.

[CamdenGregware · 9/10 · 11 July 2019]

The final 5 minutes of this episode saved it. Rihanna was abysmal as an actress and it was honestly hard to get through. The end of this episode was amazing though, which is what saved it from a low rating from me.

Deception in the classic shower scene!

[jdomingos82 · 8/10 · 16 April 2017]

I did not like Marion because of the classic shower scene, I think that it distorted the classic, but it's part of it, for me the best episode is still "Norma Louise" (¨6) of the third season, however the 4 and 5 seasons are the best ! I think now it has become less interesting the series, a pity has never been a series as good as Hannibal, but came in a crescent, now disappointed!

Why oh why did they change it!!!!

[lisajoann88 · 2/10 · 27 April 2020]

I'm Sorry- I don't care if Rihanna was a fan of the show- she should NEVER EVER have been allowed to be in such a brilliant price of tv drama! They ruined the entire show by 1) having her play one of the most iconic screen icons ever (she can't bloody act!!!!) and 2) the screwed with the whole point we'd been waiting 5 seasons to see!!! Why oh why did they do this!!! I'm never gonna forgive the writers for this!!

This is an insulte

[jtypatrick · 2/10 · 9 April 2018]

I gave this a two because the acting was good. I like this series. I wish they would have ended the series at Norma's death. With that said Psycho is a classic and a masterful made film. Even the remake was shot for shot, so to try and do Psycho in the series was a gamble. I feel that this episode and season is a disservice to Psycho the film and legacy of the character. I could continue with the miss use of clAssic characters and themes. Even he relationship of his mental image mother is not what we have come to know. Ok rant over. To each their own but like so many good shows skip the final season.

Why mess with a classic? THE classic?

[tankfreak · 4/10 · 12 September 2019]

I get that a lot of remakes/reboots want to change things up from the original so they can try to add in some new twists and surprises rather than making a carbon copy of the source material. One of the few exceptions, ironically, was the 1998 remake of Psycho, so I understand and have been 100% behind the series changing things up here and there to tell a slightly different story than what we've been given by the franchise so far. But while there were new characters added in and a lot of sidetracking for the sake of making an ongoing drama series, the series always felt like it was still heading in a direction that would ultimately lead up to the events in the movie. I had really hoped that the one thing they wouldn't change would be the Marion Crane storyline. If the whole series lead us up to Marion's arrival at the motel, that would have made a great series finale. Instead they decided to stick it in mid season to give the series its own ending. This I could also live with. But really there was absolutely no reason to change Marion's arc at all other than some writer deciding to mix things up a bit, which was frankly unnecessary. It's iconic and there was absolutely no reason to change the outcome. Honestly it severely detracts from an otherwise brilliant and compelling series.

Radical feminist ruin it again

[missel-p-c · 2/10 · 2 November 2020]

Not much to review, just as my wife pointed out this is radical feminism taking over the show. Still, I liked this series and I feel a bit down they had to ruin it for political correctness where only white man is fault for everything in the world. I found it interesting that my wife noticed this at once and mentioned it, while I wanted to live more in bubble and act like snowflakes act trying to redeem the authors by thinking maybe its some sort of new approach to the story. It aint, its actually very old political approach to serve your masters. Acting was also bad, Rihanna is not good choice and I usually liked her, in Valarian she was almost perfect. Here it doesnt fit.

Insulting

[pablovete · 5/10 · 28 February 2019]

They didn't understand why Psycho was so great ! This could be great but it's stupid Actors are good : Norma and Norman great but a lot of things just doesn't fit