BATES MOTEL
A&E, 10:00 p.m. ET
This series, this season, has become one of the year’s most delightful surprises, as it closes in on its finale, and its merging with the story told in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic movie Psycho. Last week, Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his domineering mother Norma (Vera Farmiga) finally confronted each other about the elephant in the room, and it was a dead elephant. Viewers know she’s dead, and exists now only as a very active figment of her son’s imagination – and Norman seems to know that now, too, even if Norma herself won’t admit it. This week, despite their confrontation, expect to see more of Farmiga’s Norma – and, probably, more of Highmore’s Norma as well. And no, that's not a typo.