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Bates Motel (TV Series)

Bates Motel

2013

Anthony Cipriano (Creator), Tucker Gates ...

Freddie Highmore, Vera Farmiga, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke ...

7.1

6,656

TV Series. Thriller. Mystery TV Series (2013-2017). 5 Seasons. 50 Episodes. This film intends to give viewers an intimate understanding of how Norman Bates' psyche developed from his childhood through his teen years. Fans will have access to the dark, twisted backstory and learn first hand how his mother, Norma, and her lover damaged Norman, helping forge the most well-known serial killing motel owner in history.

	Media	Author	Review
		Ben Travers IndieWire	"[Review 5th Season]: Everything that makes 'Bates Motel' great connects to what initially fascinated us about 'Psycho'."
		Brian Tallerico Vulture	"[Review 5th Season]: The two leads have never been better, and (...) Kerry Ehrin sets the stage for the final arc of this classic mother-and-son duo as she links Alfred Hitchcock’s 'Psycho' to her vision of 'Bates Motel'. It’s going to be a fun season. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jodi Walker Entertainment Weekly	"[Review 5th Season]: The first four seasons of 'Bates Motel' made a meal (...) of laying out how that transition could have happened (...) What (...) [the] excellent season 5 premiere seeks to explain is why."
		Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"There’s more than enough intrigue and entertainment--on top of Farmiga’s outstanding turn--to keep viewers wanting more of this new-style nonhomage to 'Psycho'"
		Brian Lowry Variety	"The producers do keep things interesting, for the most part without resorting to the cheap tricks that have characterized the vastly overrated 'American Horror Story'. Nevertheless, the premise becomes its own creative prison"
		Hank Stuever The Washington Post	"'Bates Motel' turns out to be a worthy reimagining of the Norman Bates story"
		David Wiegand SFGATE	"For now (...) the credibility issues don't matter that much because we're more interested in the characters, who may not be all that credibly created themselves, but who are informed by Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece"
		James Poniewozik Time	"Maybe the most encouraging thing about this intriguing but imperfect Young Norman Bates Adventures show is that, in a time when dramas are determined to hook viewers with rapid-fire twists, it takes its time answering"
		Matt Roush TV Guide	"Curiously compelling"
		Linda Stasi New York Post	"It ain’t Hitchcock, but it ain’t bad. Too bad it ain’t new"
		Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture	"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 bait-and-switch"

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