Bates Motel may be over for the season, and we may have to wait til 2016 for season 4, but that doesn’t mean we cannot get our fix. The Psycho prequel tells the story of young Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore), that famous motel, and the family and friends surrounding him – mother Norma (Vera Farmiga), brother Dylan (Max Thieriot), close friend and motel employee Emma (Olivia Cooke), and Uncle Caleb (Kenny Johnson).

Geeks of Doom got the awesome chance to speak with Kenny Johnson, now that the crazy season has come to an end. Johnson is a TV veteran, best known for his years on The Shield, where he played Detective Curtis Lemansky for five seasons. Other notable work includes Dewey on Saving Grace, Kozik on SOA, a brief stint on Dexter, and actually, he is currently also on Chicago Fire as Tommy Welch. He can soon be seen in Solace, alongside Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins. I think this guy is a workaholic.

Bates Motel
Season 3 Episode 5: “The Deal”
Directed by Nestor Carbonell
Written by Scott Kosar
Starring Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Nestor Carbonell, Olivia Cooke, and Kenny Johnson.
A&E
Air Date: Monday, April 6th, 2015, 9pm

Before we get to the Bates Motel episode 5 review, let’s recap last week’s episode. Beware of spoilers!

“You betrayed mother. She needs to know,” Norman (Freddie Highmore) tells Dylan (Max Thieriot) after finding Caleb (Kenny Johnson) at his farm. Dylan had just finished patching Caleb up after a nasty fall and tearful confession filled with regret, when Norman showed up. Norma (Vera Farmiga) and the whole crew is in danger from the big players in town after Annika shows up, hands Norma a flash drive, and dies. Romero now has to investigate two dead girls who are connected to the Arcanum Club and that “missing” USB drive.

Bates Motel returns to A&E with an all new installment tonight, Episode 3.3 “Persuasion,” and the network has release a preview video and the first images from the upcoming episode.

Watch the preview and check out the first images from the episode in the image gallery here below.

Bates Motel
Season 3 Episode 2: “The Arcanum Club”
Directed by Tucker Gates
Written by Kerry Ehrin
Starring Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Theriot, Nestor Carbonell, Olivia Cooke, Kenny Johnson, Ryan Hurst
A&E
Air Date: Monday, March 16, 2015, 8pm

If you have not started season 3 of Bates Motel yet, do not go any further as there are some serious spoilers!

Last week on Bates Motel 3.1 “A Death in the Family,” the death in question was the death of Norma (Vera Farmiga) and Caleb’s (Kenny Johnson) mother, a mother Norma claims to care nothing for. Caleb tries to get closer to Dylan (Max Thieriot) now that the incestual secret is out in the open. Dylan just wants to open his medical marijuana farm. Here’s hoping he can stay legit. Norma and Norman (Freddie Highmore) are spooning. Gross! And after humiliating him by forcing him to go to school, Norma relents and lets her son stay at the house for homeschooling. A pretty girl Annika (Tracy Spiridakos) checks into the motel and gets driven out of sight by Norman after he asks Emma (Olivia Cooke) out on a date.

SAMCRO is reunited and it feels so good – to me! And sounds good for the other millions of Bates Motel and Sons of Anarchy fans. Ryan Hurst will be starting a six-episode arc starting this Monday in Bates Motel 3.2 “The Arcanum Club” as an illegal guns dealer, hiding behind a motorcycle shop (I know, I know – best thing ever), who gets tied up with Dylan (Max Thieriot) and Caleb (SOA’s Kenny Johnson).

Watch the videos and check out the two pics of Hurst from the episode here below.