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BATES MOTEL - Season One
Creator: Anthony Cipriano
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Freddie
Highmore and Max Thieriot
A modern re-imagining and prequel to the movie Psycho (1960).
This story begins with the earlier
years of a teenage Norman Bates
and his mother Norma who live in an
old house overlooking the adjoining motel which they are renovating. The house and hotel both come
with secrets of their own as does the
new town which the Bates’ now call
home.
Who would have thought it? A television show based on a stone-coldnailed-on-five-star classic “untouchable” movie turns out not only to not
be terrible but to be rather good.
Bates Motel is a “contemporary prequel” to the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
movie, Psycho and tells the story of the
life of Norman Bates and his mother
Norma prior to the events portrayed
in the classic movie. Picking up after
the death of Norma’s h