The last thing I want to touch on was in an older episode. I loved Norma and Norman's fairly recent chat about how their relationship had changed and how it could never go back to what it was, which of course, came before he had this experience in the box, so is there any going back in terms of their relationship? What can you say about where they're headed as a pair?
KERRY EHRIN: "They kind of are comfortable with that arrangement for a number of different reasons, partly because Norma has such a deep need to not be abandoned that she holds on to him in ways that are not healthy and that she's not even aware of. I think he's like a teenage boy who hasn't separated from his mother yet, and obviously that's not a good idea. So I think so much of that is not acknowledged between them because they both need it to stay unacknowledged. It's something they would not want to look at or have to say that they were doing. But I feel like that scene was about him. It was the first time he kind of said any part of it out loud, and that's why I love that episode so much, because it's the first time that they really start playing off of each other as a couple. Like when she's trying to make him jealous because she's going out that night and he's saying, 'I don't care. Stay out.' It was just so rich and weird and interesting because they're not usually that overt about it. It was kind of him calling her on her bullshit, and it put him a little more in a position of power which we haven't seen before and is really interesting to see Norman coming from a stronger place with her."
