Bates Motel

The casting of Freddie Highmore looks genius! I am very much looking forward to this one, has bags of potential!

We recently got our first look at A&E’s highly anticipated Psycho prequel series Bates Motel by way of a couple of images of stars Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga as Norman and Norma Bates, and now a large batch of new images from the series has landed online. The drama from Lost co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and Friday Night Lights alum Kerry Ehrin centers on the relationship between a young Norman Bates and his mother, and the show looks to feature an appropriately colorful cast of characters. There’s a bit of a Twin Peaks feel from these images, so hopefully Cuse and Ehrin have crafted a creepy and fun take on the burgeoning serial killer. A&E ordered Bates Motel straight to series instead of waiting to see a pilot first, so the show is poised to debut in Spring 2013.

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Charlie gone cray cray!

In modern times though

Norman Bates should never exist in a time period where's he's more likely to check his Facebook page than scare us

What difference does that make? Are serial killers less scary now?

It could be set in 200 years in the future, and it wouldn't make a difference to the story....

CelticPredator said:

What difference does that make? Are serial killers less scary now?

It could be set in 200 years in the future, and it wouldn't make a difference to the story....

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I think this will be cracking, well I hope so anyway

Im interested but not getting too excited. I was satisfied with what they did in part IV. I'll give it a go though.

Vera Farmiga is hot.

They should've gotten Andrew Garfield for young Norm Bates. He looks a lot like Anthony Perkins and has similar awkward mannerisms. I guess Garfield is too big a name now.

This has fail written all over it. Prequel or remake, we've seen what happens when you try to top an already perfect franchise.

So it's going to be a Kid Norman doing eeeevil things?

EVILFACE said:

So it's going to be a Kid Norman doing eeeevil things?

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Or fapping to his mother turning tricks.

CelticPredator said:

What difference does that make? Are serial killers less scary now?

It could be set in 200 years in the future, and it wouldn't make a difference to the story....

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So, you're OK with them calling it a prequel, but having it set well after the original?

Still, I'm interested in following this through. I'd like to see where they go with it. Personally, I'd rather have it based during the time of the original, in the 50's -60's era.

plasmid303 said:

Vera Farmiga is hot.

They should've gotten Andrew Garfield for young Norm Bates. He looks a lot like Anthony Perkins and has similar awkward mannerisms. I guess Garfield is too big a name now.

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Yeah, actually I can see what you mean - good spot.

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Uhm,...now it's a "re-imagining"... using the original Psycho as a springboard, and nothing else. So no continuity worries or wonky time period/era problems. Lazy?

So--Ultimate Norman Bates is what we are getting here pretty much. Wow. As a major fan of Psycho---I am suddenly feeling as if I am sitting down to watch "Werewolf: the Beast Among Us" and being told its a hip new re-imagining of Lon Chaney's Wolfman. Instead of a direct to dvd ho-hum that they blackmailed Stephen Rea into being involved with.

Poor Norman. I hope its better than the bishop beating performance Vince Vaughn gave us in that wretched, alternate reality, earth2 version of Psycho that came out in 1998. But it will prolly be just as vomitous.

Look and cry:

https://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/ne...er-for-aaes-psycho-prequel-series-bates-motel

No interest whatsoever. Not unlike Alan Moore, I think Hitchcock is one of the great artistic geniuses whose work should be appreciated for what it is and left alone. But there's money to be made, so. . .whatever.

karamazov80 said:

No interest whatsoever. Not unlike Alan Moore, I think Hitchcock is one of the great artistic geniuses whose work should be appreciated for what it is and left alone. But there's money to be made, so. . .whatever.

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Is there though? I don't expect this to be very successful at all.

Nice teaser.

[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV1rHEwudJQ]Bates Motel (A&E) "Motherly Love" Teaser - YouTube[/ame]

Trailer with some behind the scenes footage with the creators of the show.

[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkn5aEadrX4]Bates Motel (A&E) Trailer - YouTube[/ame]

New trailer.

[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiM4caR6jf4]Bates Motel - New Trailer - YouTube[/ame]

I am still skeptical about the show, but the trailers has me intrigued.

I guess if this was an original series without being tied to Psycho, then perhaps more people would be open to it. But being connected to the Psycho franchise (even if it's in name only) gives them a leverage in promoting and in gaining an audience that is easier than doing it for a original show. It's no surprise that they continue to take that easy approach instead of something more original.

BATES MOTEL Teaser Trailer and Poster. BATES MOTEL Stars Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga. | Collider

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BATES MOTEL Trailer. BATES MOTEL Stars Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga | Collider

The first episode was decent - nothing outstanding yet, but a nice set up to what could come. While it's set in a modern world, we still get the same creepy Bates Motel, and I'm fine with that. In fact, I'd be less inclined to watch if it was the early 50's - I'm not really interested in Norman oogling girls in poodle skirts down at the soda fountain.

Norman's acceptance into the school seems a little easy, but I'm also glad that we aren't getting the overplayed "oh, I was bullied so that made me act this way" excuse. In fact, but allowing Norman a glimpse at a normal life, it makes the eventual situation all the more tragic.This is clearly going to be the story of a mother/son relationship that starts out not that unusual and eventually spins way out of control.

I also thought that the big event in the first episode that pretty much cements Norman and Norma together was very believable, even in their follow up actions. It also further indicates that while the death of Norman's father seemed...natural...that it probably wasn't, and I think Norma did him in as well, but Norman never knew.

The acting from the two leads is good too, so it has potential. I've got it on the DVR schedule, and I'll give it a couple more weeks.

A&E's Bates Motel Opens for Business with 4.6 Million Viewers!

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https://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=101749

I enjoyed the premiere and it provided a nice setup for this season. The mother/son dynamic is pretty creepy as expected.

It's on my dvr queue as well.