State: Ended
Genre: Drama
Origin:
United States
Developed by: Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin and Anthony Cipriano
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore and Max Thieriot
IMDb score:
8,1 (127.065)
Releasedate: Monday 18 March 2013
This TV Show is not available on US streaming services.
Bates Motel plot
Freddie Highmore is Norman Bates, a 17-year-old young man who, after the death of his father, moved with mother Norma Louise to the coastal Oregon town of White Pine Bay to start a new life. Mother Bates has bought the dilapidated Seafairer Motel to make a fresh start with her son. Norman befriends a group of schoolgirls on his first day of school. The same day they also meet the previous owner of the hotel, who comes to demand his property back.
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Norma Bates
Norman Bates
Dylan Massett
Emma Decody
Alex Romero
Bradley Martin
Caleb Calhoun
Forensics (uncredited)
Annika Johnson
Zack Shelby
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brawljeff
- 2606 comments
- 717 votes
Nice concept, in which Norman Bates' backstory is set in the present. It is a feast of recognition through the iconic locations. Freddie Highmore plays an increasingly better Norman as the series progresses, but it is Vera Farmiga who steals the show.
Unfortunately, the series sometimes feels very much like an MTV teen series and the subplots are often anything but interesting.
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clubsport
- 45 comments
- 66 votes
After watching Psycho 4, I started this series out of curiosity. The series itself is not bad, but if you take the starting point of an origin story from Psycho, I think it is a lot less successful.
The makers have made 2 wrong decisions, the first is the decision to place the story in the present, I don't know why, but if you are going to refer so clearly to the characters in Psycho then why this decision? I don't think it's a good choice, but that shouldn't have been insurmountable.
I find the second decision fatal, and that is the decision to push Norma Bates into the victim role, while in the psycho series (certainly part 4) she is the evil genius behind Norman's disturbed personality.
Now she is the victim of her own son and that is not what the original main plot is about, in fact, it is quite the opposite.
My question is: how do you explain Norman's behavior if his mother is suddenly not a psychopath? .
Perhaps the makers did not dare to portray a single mother character as evil, because this character switch is the opposite of what the story is about.
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