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From the
very beginning, the A&E series’ creators Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry
Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) emphasized that Bates Motel isn’t an homage to
Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho. The show serves as “a contemporary prequel” to the
aforementioned genre-defining film. Bates Motel tells a story that isn’t, at
first, overtly scary, but still sends shivers up your spine. We meet
17-year-old Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland, Five Children
and It) on the worst night of his life to date, the night his father dies in a
mysterious accident. Without further ceremony, his mother, Norma Bates (Vera
Farmiga, The Departed, Up in the Air), piles him into the car and leaves
Arizona for a fresh start in White Pines Bay on the beautiful Northern
California coast. There, they buy a rundown motel and the house that goes along
with it.
At his new
high school, Norman cuts a brilliant figure. Although he is besieged by a
gaggle of pretty, popular girls, he befriends Emma Decody (Olivia Cooke,
Blackout, The Secret of Crickley Hall), a charming, outsider girl with cystic
fibrosis who seems to find in him a kindred spirit. Meanwhile, Norma burns her
fingers again and again. She manages to arouse the interest of the sheriff
(Nestor Carbonell, Monk, Psych) and his deputy (Mike Vogel, Grounded for Life,
Pan Am) in different ways. To break the camel’s back, Dylan Massett (Max
Thieriot, Catch That Kid, The Pacifier), Norman’s half-brother, weasels his way
back into their lives.
Without a
doubt, Bates Motel is in a class of its own…
Show Status: Scheduled 2nd Season
Season 1
- First You Dream, Then You Die
- Nice Town You Picked, Norma
- What’s Wrong with Norman
- Trust Me
- Ocean View
- The Truth
- The Man in Number 9
- A Boy and His Dog
- Underwater
- Midnight
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