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The first season of Bates Motel consisted of 10 episodes is described as a contemporary prequel to the 1960 film Psycho. Fans will have access to the dark, twisted backstory and learn first hand just how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly is and how she helped forge the most famous serial killer of them all. Norman and Norma Bates buy a motel shortly after Normans father dies. In one of the first nights of the two owning the motel, things end badly when the former owner breaks in and rapes Norma. A returning Norman knocks the attacker out and Norma then kills him, and they decide to hide the body in a lake.
13 September 1979, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
30 October 1971, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
16 June 1973, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
6 July 1975, Montréal, Québec, Canada
26 July 1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
5 April 1984, Austin, Texas, USA
20 August 1980, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 March 1989, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
March 18, 2013
The good news is that Highmore and Farmiga are game for everything and sell every false smile, blank stare and horrific scream that comes their way.
March 18, 2013
Having started with a bad premise, producers Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin then made it infinitely worse by rejecting the loneliness and isolation that were the nucleus of Hitchcock's film.
March 18, 2013
Ya know what? It ain't bad.
March 17, 2013
They've done a smart job of building a cryptic, threatening world around the disturbing relationship at its center.
March 18, 2013
This property is definitely worth the hourly rate.
March 17, 2013
Like Psycho, it offers a deliciously scary stew of unexpected twists, murder and mind games.
March 18, 2013
"You're different, aren't you?" says a pretty classmate who takes a shine to Norman - if she only knew - later likening him to "a beautiful deep still lake in the middle of a concrete world" and concluding that's he's "weird. Weird good." So's the show.
March 18, 2013
Very well-cast, clever, and fun.
March 18, 2013
We keep getting distracted from what should be the main focus of the series - Norman's bizarre relationship with his mother - by subplots involving other bad guys.
March 15, 2013
All in all, its assured storytelling and fine performances give a worthy contemporary spin to a classic.
