Bates Motel got here to an finish however the present’s stars, together with Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot and Olivia Cooke, have remained on our screens.
The A&E collection, which ran from 2013 to 2017, labored as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1960 movie Psycho. Based mostly on Robert Bloch‘s 1959 novel of the identical title, each the present and the film targeted on Norman Bates (Freddie) and the motel that later serves as the backdrop for his murders.
Bates Motel, nevertheless, units up the story by introducing Norman as an adolescent who makes the transfer to Oregon together with his mom, Norma (Vera Farmiga). The duo try to begin recent after his father’s sudden dying however Norman’s deteriorating psychological well being causes issues.
The ultimate season of the present loosely adopted the plot of Psycho, which launched Norman as an grownup operating the motel whereas secretly conserving his mom’s stays on the property. Bates Motel expanded on the world of Psycho by introducing new characters corresponding to Norman’s half-brother, Dylan (Thieriot), his greatest good friend Emma (Cooke) and a love curiosity for Norma a.okay.a Sheriff Alex Romero (Néstor Carbonell).
After the finale, Highmore weighed in on a doable reunion sooner or later, telling TVLine in 2017, “There’s no hope of coming again for one more season or convincing folks that we will simply do a couple of extra episodes in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later [since Norman was killed at the end]. I’m unsure what the Christmas reunion would seem like. Perhaps Norma and Norman might be on a seashore in Hawaii Heaven.”
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