Bates Motel

About Bates Motel

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.

Bates Motel is a crime and mystery series that ran on A&E. It ran for 5 seasons and 50 episodes between March 2013 and April 2017.

Its themes are single mother, parent child relationship, motel, and serial killer. Vera Farmiga leads the cast as Norma Bates, Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates, Max Thieriot as Dylan Massett, and Olivia Cooke as Emma Decody.

Production companies include American Genre, Cuse Productions, and Kerry Ehrin Productions. American members can watch it on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

House of the Dragon, Chucky, and Twin Peaks make useful companions to Bates Motel, all filed under dysfunctional family and based on movie. TMDB voters put it at 8.0 out of 10 across 1,851 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.