Amazon Prime VideoA "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.
Bates Motel (a&E) Series; Mon. March 18, 10 p.m. Production: credits: Filmed in Vancouver by Carlton Cuse Prods. in association with Universal Television. ... TV. Reviews.Although the show features splendid central performances from…
TV Review: ‘Bates Motel’. By Brian Lowry. Plus Icon.Although the show features splendid central performances from Freddie Highmore as a 17-year-old Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as his possessive mother Norma, sustaining an ongoing…
tv review.I’m torn between condemning the series for piggybacking on a classic and promising an origin story it doesn’t really care to deliver, and praising it for avoiding the homicidal Muppet Babies formula and pulling a pretty brazen…
