Fire Country's Max Thieriot Breaks Down 'Bates Motel' Nods in 'Sheriff Country' Crossover Episode

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00:00So, as a fan of Bates Motel, a big fan, it was hard to watch this new episode with Bodie

00:04standing there next to all the marijuana plants and not have flashbacks to Dylan guarding

00:08all those plants on Bates Motel, so I have to assume that was an intentional nod.

00:13Well, and so, I'm going to go one level deeper here.

00:17I think I know where you're going.

00:19With W. Earl?

00:20No.

00:21Mickey's dad?

00:22Oh, was he, he was.

00:23Mickey's dad, Mickey's dad is who we bought the motel from.

00:28Oh, that's right.

00:29I was thinking, like, because I was thinking, like, also Dylan, his partner, like, went

00:32on a, he was killed and Dylan had to bring him in, and the same thing with the rattlesnakes,

00:36so I was thinking, like, from that perspective.

00:37No, no, no.

00:38W. Earl Brown is the one who owned the motel that Norma, Norma, Norman and Norma purchased

00:44and, like, set off the whole thing in the beginning.

00:46It's crazy.

00:47So, that has to be intentional, but why did it take you, like, did you want to take maybe

00:50a few seasons before you did kind of nods to your career for fans like me who, like,

00:54loved you, Bates Motel, Nancy Drew?

00:58Well, I don't know if I've done any Nancy Drew nods yet in Fire Country.

01:01It's coming.

01:02We still have time.

01:03I'm getting my sleuthing kit out here soon, but no, I mean, look, like, the big thing

01:09for us is, you know, the show's centered in Northern California, you know, and our version

01:15of a humble county, like, county, and, like, marijuana is really the industry and has been

01:22for a long time, and, yeah, so we're kind of, we're back to it.

01:28We're back to some of those Bates ways again.