Bates Motel TV Review (2024)

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What was Mrs Bates illness? ›

Psycho IV: The Beginning

It is implied in the film that Mrs. Bates suffered from schizophrenia, which Norman inherits.

Rihanna stars as Marion Crane in “Bates Motel,” the A&E series that serves as a prequel the Alfred Hitchco*ck classic Psycho. In the film, Crane is famously murdered in the shower.

A contemporary prequel to Psycho, giving a portrayal of how Norman Bates' psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly i... Read all.

”I think that Twin Peaks was definitely an influence for both of us,” Cuse says. ”The content of the show is probably one part Friday Night Lights, one part Lost, and one part Twin Peaks.” There's no Log Lady or creepy dwarf — at least not in the first three episodes shown to EW — but there is a violent death in the ...

The series follows Norman Bates' life as a teenager (prior to the events in Psycho), a time he is unaware that he has transient loss of consciousness episodes related to dissociative identity disorder.

Perhaps the most famous scene in the history of cinema, the shower killing in Alfred Hitchco*ck's Psycho is examined in forensic detail in the new documentary 78/52. Director Alexandre O. Philippe tells us what he found behind the curtain.

After telling Norman her version of the truth – confessing that Norman had indeed killed his father but only to protect his mother – Norma dissuades Norman from suicide by kissing him fully on the lips. It was a passionate, loving kiss. Between mother and son.

Norman's "Mother" personality is as cruel and possessive as the real Norma had been in life, frequently berating him and forbidding him to have a life outside of her. As "Mother", he dresses in Norma's clothes and talks to himself in her voice, and he also speaks to her corpse as if it is alive.

Some may think that the character of Norman Bates was created solely by author Robert Bloch, but he was, in fact, loosely inspired by the man and tales of serial killer Ed Gein. Ed Gein, known also as the Butcher of Plainfield, was a killer and body snatcher around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin.

Unfortunately, the only thing Norman wanted in the end was to be reunited with his mother, even if it meant he had to die. So in a twisted suicide attempt, Norman rushed at a gun-wielding Dylan with a knife, forcing his brother to shoot and kill him.

Why did Norman Bates go crazy? ›

Norman Bates suffers from a mental disorder known as dissociative identity disorder (DID) or multiple personality disorder (MPD). After enduring emotional and physical abuse from Norma from an early age, Norman would go onto develop a second personality/identity that resembles his Mother in many ways.

A quirky, pretty, intelligent seventeen-year-old girl who has cystic fibrosis and an “old soul.” She gets an almost immediate crush on Norman and is always showing up on his doorstep.

Bates Motel is a 1987 American made-for-television supernatural horror film and a spin-off of the Psycho franchise written and directed by Richard Rothstein, starring Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn, Gregg Henry, Jason Bateman, and Kerrie Keane.

The Bates Motel is a high startle, high action haunted attraction and not recommended for children under 8 or people with heart conditions.

Emma has cystic fibrosis and the series provides an accurate portrayal of how it affects her life. The writer of Bates Motel, Bill Balas, has cystic fibrosis in real life, so he is well qualified to write about the condition. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic condition that a child inherits from both parents.

Elton who speaks without end solely in an attempt to have her voice heard, Miss Bates's moments of dialogue have a selfless purpose: to serve her society. Tempting as it is to dismiss Miss Bates as another flat, comic character of Highbury alongside Mr.

When we last left Downton Abbey at the end of season two, the beloved and continually wronged Mr. Bates had just been found guilty of murdering his wife.

Behind the scenes

John Bates (b. 1869), usually known as just Bates for most of Downton Abbey, is Robert Crawley's valet. Initially, he is poorly treated by most of the staff due to the fact that he uses a cane (he was wounded in the Boer War). Thomas Barrow and Sarah O'Brien make several attempts to get rid of him.