Yes, Mother: A Bates Motel Podcast

Em and Sue read your emails, go on tangents, and then talk about what we’ve been watching. You know the drill.

Here is Sue and Em’s actual discussion about what we’d been watching…. last Christmas…sort of.Shows discussed: The Flight Attendant, Em’s Korean Drama’s: Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung, While You Were Sleeping, and Tale of the Nine Tailed. AFI watches: On the Waterfront, American Grafitti, and The Best Years of Our Lives. Sue talks about The Great […]

It WAS the holidays when we recorded this…and 2020….and this is part 1. Part 2 coming very soon. Promise.

It’s an unprecedented time, where many stressful things are culminating and converging….Welcome to Fall 2020! Em and Sue discuss what they are watching to get through and we read your feedback and discuss that. Join us if you want some recommendations that veer towards happier times and/or self care. Maybe after the election is over […]

Hey guys! We’re back and getting better at this recording and posting in a timely manner. I’m even going to list what we discussed and where to find it! I know, I’m shocked too. Em: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Hulu), The Umbrella Academy (Netflix), Goblin or Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (Rakuten VIKI), […]

Hey guys! We’re back with a little better audio quality and a few more shows. Em and Sue are still locked down and still watching the shows! Join us! Next time I’ll write down what we watched so you guys get enticed. #goals

Wow– hey guys! Sue and I made an attempt at podcasting again. We talked about how we’ve been keeping ourselves busy these days especially in the world of streaming. I have no idea what I’m doing anymore and it’s been a small miracle that I’ve gotten this podcast to this point. It’s amazing what being […]

Now I can’t stress this enough- THIS IS NOT A COMMENTARY OF THE BRILLIANT A&E SHOW BATES MOTEL! It is a commentary of the lesser known, less….uh….good pilot show called Bates Motel made in 1987. It didn’t get picked up, I know– we were all shocked and you will be too after you watch it. […]

We read your feedback for last month’s podcast and the song means nothing. We did this last month, but um, I’m just now editing it. #honesty

Em and Sue once again talk about what we watched. (Feedback episode to follow shortly).: 11:15 – The Handmaid’s Tale 28:45 – 11/22/63 38:00 – It 47:50 – The Last Jedi (Spoilers!) 1:07:20 – Retribution 1:12:20 – The Farthest Voyager in Space Sorry about the music quality at the end- I don’t know why and […]

Here’s part two! La Mante 0:12 Psych 6:20 Black Mirror (S3&4) 12:38 Iron Fist 26:38 Anne With An “E” 31:40 The Code 44:44 The Good Doctor 51:03 The Tunnel 57:02 Alias Grace (brief mention really) 1:02:46 The End of the Fxxxing World 1:06:03 The Night Of 1:08:45

Long time no chat! Em and Sue missed podcasting and missed you guys, so we are back and discussing a few things we’ve been watching. In this episode (there will be another soon) we discussed some shows we both saw, then we went on to each pick a few shows the other hadn’t seen and […]

The long awaited recap of the finale. You can’t blame us for taking so long, it’s kind of like if we don’t post this, it’s not really over. Or maybe I’ve just been busy and recovering from a bike accident. At any rate– here you go, we recap this beautiful episode of television. (And then […]

We read your feedback on the finale, reveal a song listener Mike wrote for the podcast, break a record on the time it takes us to read one piece of feedback (we blame Daniel…jk…), and do some epic Yes Mother-splaining with a sprinkle of shush. We hope we help you all shush a few of […]

Did you wish you could have gone to the Yes Mother Bates Motel Finale Party and watched the last episode ever of Bates Motel with Em and Sue (and Cat and Kristen)? Well– you can come close! Sit back, grab a sandwich or turkey pot pie, relax, and turn the episode on (or not- you […]

Now for our recap. Em and Sue look back on this episode and try not to panic about all the stuff that somehow needs to be in the finale. Trust the writers has been a pretty good, fail safe mantra so far, so that is exactly what we are going to do. We talk a […]

You got your feedback in and we read it!   (That’s all I got)

Here we are at the end of the series (not quite but close enough!) and things are definitely coming to a head. We are confused by the title though…THE Body doesn’t seem to be descriptive enough. Bodies is more like, but this episode or the lake didn’t seem to have enough bodies in it […]

We recap this week and try to come up with scenarios that possibly could be where the show goes from here. We came up with a few good ones, but we know we are wrong, cause this show has made it abundantly clear that it is smarter than us. But Emily is crossing her fingers […]

It’s feedback time! The action at the hotel this week slowed down a little, but don’t get too comfortable, the yellow crime scene tape should be pretty easy to dodge. The B & B heard a lot of commotion in the main room and kitchen, but that didn’t wreck game night in the least. You […]

Join us on this episode as we recap this game-changer. This week, Marion Crane checked in, Norman offered stationary and a sandwich, and then she took a shower. I’ll stop there and just quote my favorite tweet of Monday night, by @GeneHarl0w: “Dear Feminist Version of Psycho. I didn’t know I needed you. But thank […]

This week, Bates Motel when full Psycho! Haha– just kidding cause man I’m getting sick of reading reviews that say that, because they’ve been saying it since the end of season 2. So can we put a moratorium on saying that finally? Anyways– this was a pretty cool episode and in this podcast we read […]

Interesting episode, missing 3 of it’s major players. But can Freddie Highmore carry an episode that lacks 3 of his most dynamic costars? YOU BET HE CAN! And he can do it in a wig and lacy things (even though we sadly have to rely on our imaginations for that- but our imaginations are vast). […]

We managed to fit it all into one episode this week (although you’d never know it given the time it took us to record yesterday). But that’s our business. This episode felt very much like we are on the precipice of mayhem, shenanigans and stabby stabby good times had by all, and we couldn’t be […]

Em and Sue recap this week’s episode of Bates Motel. Caleb is handcuffed in the basement, Norman is walking in the woods with Norma dopplegangers (and blacking out quite a bit lately), Norma is chilling in the basement, and Chick…well, Chick seems to now be the butler. Whatever is happening with everyone in this episode, […]

We are back this week with our feedback for Bad Blood. We read your feedback and discuss the finer points of this crazy, Chick-filled, sideshow.

It’s week 2 and Em and Sue are having a great time discussing this season with all it’s intricacies. There is so much to pull apart and we find ourselves interpreting many things differently, so hopefully that makes for an interesting discussion and no- Sue isn’t psychic– in the second half of this discussion we […]

In this ep of the podcast, we go in depth in our discussion of the episode, going through it scene by scene. In this ep of the show, we catch up with the Bates and friends, about 18 months after the death of mother- whether they know about it or not. Norman and Norma live […]

We’re back and so is Bates Motel! Yay! We are so excited for this season– shhh about it being the last 🙁 We are back, reading your thoughts and sharing ours as we do so. So happy to have so many old faces back and a few new ones too- the motel and B and […]

Sue and Em had the opportunity to see the film 78/52 at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and we took that opportunity since it was all about the film Psycho, more specifically though– the infamous shower scene. Yes Please! So we give our impressions and tell you about it. Then we discuss the big, […]

In this part II, Em, Sue and Cat discuss our top favorite Normeo scenes of the season, name our favorite and least favorite eps, laugh through our favorite quotes, read your feedback, and introduce you to “Em’s alternate universe fan fiction”. Hope you enjoy and lets all shed a tear as we say goodbye officially […]

Welcome back to White Pine Bay! It feels like it’s been forever since we were here. We hope you enjoy returning there as much as we did. In this first part of a two part podcast, Em, Sue and Cat discuss our overall feelings binging this season and new thoughts and theories, then we count […]

In this bonus ep, Em and Sue discuss some stuff we’ve been watching since Bates went away. We discuss (in varying degrees of detail and success): The End of the Tour, Happy Valley, Room, The Great British Baking Show, the newest season of OITNB*, American Gothic, Preacher, The Boy, The Conjouring 2, Em’s weird Mubi […]

Em and Sue recap the finale episode of Season 4 where stuff and things happened. Unspeakable things. Yet Em and Sue prattle on for hours about those things (and stuff). Join us!

(Because seriously- no safe images represent this episode, we shush them all and look at a puppy and baby orangutans.) Em and Sue discuss their first reactions to the episode and then we read all your thoughts and feelings about this epic piece of television, that was Bates Motel season 4 finale. Now baby orangutans, […]

      *Shush*        

We read your feedback. *sniff*

We learned something very important this episode. Something that changes everything… Alex Romero is a Unicorn.   Oh yes, and something about a peephole origin story. That is all.

We are back this week with another feedback episode in which we read your feedback and make comments on it. After the music, we have an impromptu (yet mini) What We’ve Been Watching, where we totally spoil Season 2 of Orphan Black- we’ve now been warned.

We have just one long podcast for you all this week, so this one includes the recap and feedback (and we read a bad review!) Good times. Norman discovers the shenanigans that have been going on in his house with his mother while he has been away and lets just say it doesn’t sit well […]

This week Em and Sue try to wrap our minds and our emotions around The Vault. Norma and Chick’s business seems to come to an end, Dylan tells his family about the move, and Norman’s subconscious recounts parts of his childhood Mother is willing to do anything to protect from him. It’s hard to think […]

This week– Em and Sue read your feedback to the Season 4 episode “The Vault” and we do our thing- come up with theories, ponder on the show, laugh, lamely attempt to racially profile the director… all in a day’s work. You know the drill. Recap will be out tomorrow!

In this mid season episode, Norma is off to find a stained glass repairman for her non boring window, Emma is a bit insecure around Dylan (until he becomes Quint), Mother introduces herself to Dr. Edwards (whaaa??), Chick and Norma meet(!!), and Rebecca… well, Rebecca is tail spinning into a land called Crazy Exgirlfriendville, seemingly […]

In this feedback ep– you guessed it. Em and Sue read your feedback and make their own comments and theories along the way. At the end, look for (finally) Em’s latest Psycho themed dream. Spoiler Alert it was the night before Easter and that may have played into some details.

No Bates last week, so Sue and Em took the opportunity to discuss some of the other stuff we’ve been watching since the last time we did one of these…yes, it’s been a long time. In this ep we discuss: The Creature from the Black Lagoon Night of the Living Dead It Follows An Honest […]

Well, tonight was a major bummer of a Monday with no new Bates Motel to watch. So, in lieu of watching, why don’t you listen to 3 sisters talk about last week’s ep? It’s the best we can do… That’s right, I said three- since she was in town, we got our sister Cat (La […]

In The Lights of Winter, we see Norma and Alex awkwardly face each other at breakfast…Oh let’s face it- the awkwardness was alllll Norma. She ends up meeting him at the Winter Lights Festival though in the end (after a little pep talk with Emma), and is then smooth as hot toddies. Meanwhile, Norman breaks […]

Alright– it’s recap time! (Just in the nick of time too- sorry about that) In this episode of the podcast, Em and Sue go through the ep scene by scene as we come up with theories, talk some stuff out, and laugh.

Is that wedding bells we hear? Why yes it is. Is that the sound of my new husband rearranging stuff upstairs? Hmmmm. What did I get myself into? Don’t worry Norma…what could go wrong? Here at Yes Mother we are in pure denial that anything will go wrong and will happily write fanfiction about the […]

In this episode of Bates Motel, we spend some quality time with Norma and Norman. Although it’s not all His Girl Friday, card games and cake baking… Nope- it’s comprised mostly of suspicion and antics. Of course it is. Oh, and one other little thing– Romero accepted Norma’s fool marriage proposal, and it was enough […]