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Bates Motel

Name: Bates Motel
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Released: 2013-03-18
Rating: 8.056

★ 8,1 /10 (1,799 Votes)

2013 EN 5 Seasons

Overview

A "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.

Stream

Buy

First air date

18/03/2013

Votes

1,799

Popularity

26.1

Together until the end.

Genres

Drama Crime Mystery

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Created by

Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, Anthony Cipriano

Networks

A&E

Language

Last air date

2017-04-24

Episodes

Episode runtime

45 min

Website

www.aetv.com

Season 1

10 episodes • 2013 • ⭐ 7,6

After finding his father dead, teenager Norman Bates and his mother, Norma, purchase a motel and move to White Pine Bay …

Season 2

10 episodes • 2014 • ⭐ 8,0

In the aftermath of Miss Watson's murder, Norman's innocence is buried under blackouts, suspicious characters, and his s…

Season 3

10 episodes • 2015 • ⭐ 8,0

After a blissful summer of closeness with his mother in the safe confines of her home, Norman returns to school and is f…

Season 4

10 episodes • 2016 • ⭐ 8,3

As Norman continues to spiral out of control, Norma's desperation to help her son amplifies. Growing increasingly fearfu…

Vera Farmiga

Norma Bates

Freddie Highmore

Norman Bates

Max Thieriot

Dylan Massett

Olivia Cooke

Emma Decody

Nestor Carbonell

Alex Romero

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Unrelated, boring, ridiculous. I don't understand how this non-existent story became so popular that it got its TV show. The "Based on an original movie Psycho from 1960" is just clickbait, this story has nothing to do with the movie except the names of characters and location. Most of the episodes are filled with absurdly stupid and unrealistic plot twists which make the whole show boring and unpleasant to watch. The most common question asked every few minutes was "why". There are more fictional TV series that are at least entertaining, this one is not. After the first few episodes, I treat…

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