Season 1 – Bates Motel

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J H @UpstateNYThriller Aug 10, 2026 9.8/10 All season top tier Norman Bates serial killers dissent into madness in small rural town See more D S @RT86113398 Mar 13, 2026 Worst show ever made See more Jacob B @RT48293763 Aug 12, 2025 Being a devotee of Hitchcock, I avoided this series for a decade before giving in. I’m sorry I did. I have a prejudice against “prequels” and most sequels. Any competent writer should be able to tell you everything you need to know in one film (or one season), with a few exceptions — and this isn’t one of the exceptions. This series tells you nothing more about Norman than what one already knows from the novel, and the 1960 Classic film, and the three film sequels or the wretched remake. It treads water with its characters development, it adds ridiculous and unbelievable subplots that add nothing to the overall narrative (I mean, this small town is more violent and crime infested than NYC), and, most importantly, it has absolutely nothing new to add to Norman Bates backstory. There is absolutely nothing that wasn’t already known or suspected (and updating it to the present day adds nothing either, except to make the lovingly recreated Bates House and Motel of the original film seem ridiculously anachronistic). If this had been created as a limited series chamber piece that focused on Norman and his mother and his girlfriend, it might have worked and maybe mined some new insight. But as a five season series, it is bloated, unintentionally campy and a waste of time for anyone who already knows that no matter what the writers conjure up, Marion Crane will eventually have to check in and take a shower. See more Martin B @RT44235356 Apr 10, 2025 What more could you want in a series? Great characters played by accomplished actors. The scripts never get old and the setting centered around the old hotel and house unique and compelling if not new. Loved it when it first came out, loving it just as much a second time 10 years later. See more michael p @Labspeciman Sep 1, 2024 The stories are amazingly fun. Creepy Norman and his doting mother. The original movie was based on the story of Ed Gein. Central Wisconsin cannibal. That is another real life horrow story. See more Michael L @MikeLewis Jan 30, 2024 It took me forever to start this show. I had watched 1-2 episodes before and always switched. I finally decided to sit down and actually plow through this thing. Don't hesitate, watch it. It's such a good show. Once it got to season 3 I started asking myself why the vibe of this show seemed so familiar. The intro, the pacing, reminding me Lost. Sure enough, it's the same guy who did that. It gets better and better, and things start to get into 4th gear by the 3rd season when it comes to Norman really making a drastic dark change. See more Read all reviews

Bates Motel — Season 1

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