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Bates Motel- Color Scheme

  • Episode 1: First You Dream, Then You Die

    Episode 1: First You Dream, Then You Die
    Start of the season/episode:
    Norma and Norman moving in:
    Norma: bright white dress, blue shoes, very bright and sunny outside, almost white glow.
    Norman: light flannel, light brown pants, sunny.
  • Episode 2: Nice Town You Picked Here Norma

    Episode 2: Nice Town You Picked Here Norma
    Norma: wearing red while being accused of murder/missing man, dark and gloomy outside.
    Norma: wearing yellow and its sunny when on a date talking about starting a new life.
    Norman: Brown jacket, dark green shirt when doing things suspicious
  • Episode 3: "What's Wrong With Norman"

    Episode 3: "What's Wrong With Norman"
    Norma: bright blue shirt opening show
    Norman: red sweater due to being very angry and confused at his mother
    Norma: wears dark jacket for a date with a cop after she killed the man who raped her
    Norman: in all brown shirt and pants to break into the cop’s house
  • Episode 4: Trust Me

    Episode 4: Trust Me
    Norma: in a flattering clothing while dating cop
    Norman: red shirt while fishing with cop, showing that he’s guilty again for blood shed
    Norma/Norman: long brown pea coats when looking for dead body at the dumpster.
  • Episode 5: Ocean View

    Episode 5: Ocean View
    Norma: dark blue shirt and jacket when arrested as well as every time she says she’s “starting over” she’s wearing blue as well.
    Norman: bright white shirt after he thinks he got a girlfriend
  • Episode 6: The Truth

    Episode 6: The Truth
    Norman: dark brown jacket when breaking into cop’s boat just like when he broke into cop’s house; raining and dark outside as well
    Norma and cop are both wearing green: representing that they both want something Him: sex her: to keep him distracted from Norman in his boat
  • Episode 7: The Man In Number 9

    Episode 7: The Man In Number 9
    Norma and Norman: wearing bright blue opening the show positively “Starting over” again
    Norma: red sweater when she meets dangerous man in room 9
    Norman: red sweater when he goes to Bradley’s to confess his love to her and she turns him down
  • Episode 8: A Boy and His Dog

    Episode 8: A Boy and His Dog
    Norman: grey dark sweater when he’s taxidermies his dog
    Norma: wearing blue again like every episode in the beginning representing a new start
    • Only one in dark clothing at parent teacher conference
    Both: wearing grey at Psychologist’s
    Norma: wears blue while cleaning to represent new start again
  • Episode 9: Underwater

    Episode 9: Underwater
    Both: wearing blue again at the beginning as always
    Both: brown when Norma gets angry at Pot Smokers on the porch of her motel
    Norma: dark purple jacket again just as she was at parent teacher conference when she receives the threatening note.
    Norman: Wears blue dark sweater
  • Episode 10: Midnight (last episode)

    Episode 10: Midnight (last episode)
    Norma: first episode she opens up wearing dark clothing
    Norman: wearing grey opening up show
    Norma: wearing blue when her son calls her mom for the first time again in years
    Both: wearing brown talking about Norma being raped by her brother
    Norman: wears brown to prom signaling when something bad is about to happen
    Norma: wearing black in Norman’s “imaginary” conversation with her telling him to kill his female teacher.
    Ending: Nighttime
    Both: wearing dark brown and black clothing after Norman k