25 Biggest WTF TV Moments Of 2016
21. Norman Kills Norma - Bates Motel
Bates Motel's fourth season concluded with Norman (Freddie Highmore) gassing his own mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), to death with carbon monoxide, though staging it to look like a suicide while intending to also kill himself, but surviving due to the arrival of Sheriff Romero (Nestor Carbonell) just in time.
We all knew it was coming eventually, of course, but it's still a shockingly sad moment to see play out on-screen, especially with Norman subsequently digging his own mother up and refusing to believe she's dead, until she of course returns to him as a vision at the very end of the season.
It's nothing if not a tantalising tease for next season, and brings Norman even closer to his destiny in Psycho.