5 THINGS ABOUT ‘BATES MOTEL’
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‘BATES MOTEL’
• From writers & executive producers Kerry Ehrin & Carlton Cuse• Features Vera Fermiga (Mother), doubling as producer• Norma Bates appears in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)• Norman Bates, her son, is played by Freddie Highmore• Norma is brutally murdered by Norman
1. CONTEMPORARY PREQUEL TO ‘PSYCHO’•Norman still murders
Mother• The struggle = him and his psyche• Season 4, 3, 1, focuses on the death of Mother
Season 5: Norman leading his double life as a happy member of the White Pine Bay community and a miserable son constantly facing the threat of his mother completely taking over his character's mind.
2. REAL NORMAN BATES• A&E shared “Meet Real
Norman Bates” featuring real Norman Bates• “I've had this name for the last 76 years. It's my name!”
"The biggest lesson learned is you do not put Norman Bates in the phone book in a 2-college town. (silent laughter) 2 o'clock in the morning phone calls really aggravate the wife."
3. SEASON 5•Opens with Bing Cosby’s “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby”•New cast: Rihanna and Isabelle McNally
Rihanna is Marion Crane, a victim killed for looking like Mother. Isabelle plays Sam’s wife (Marion’s lover).
4. R IHANNA SEX SCENE• Rihanna’s sex scene is
featured in the trailer•Her character is not like the previous depictions
Kerry Ehrinsaid told Entertainment Weekly: “The internal story of that, for a women, is a really interesting one. We never really got to see that. In Psycho, you just see the outside of that more. It was trying to do a story about a contemporary woman with some edge, with some expectations, who isn’t perfect, who isn’t always perfectly sweet, who is in that situation, but we’re rooting for her to get what she wants.”
5. FREE TO WATCH• Full Season 5
• Ep 1 is “Dark Paradise” airing on February 20, 2017• Ep 2 is ”The Convergence of the Twain” premiering on Feb. 27, 2017
Watch from A&E TV’s website.