Bates Motel: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (2025)

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michael p 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. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/01/24 Full Review Michael L 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. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/24 Full Review wowowo w I miss this show so much now Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/04/23 Full Review Mike P Interesting premise. It's sort of, what if the whole Psycho story happened today; and the characters were all more normalish than the psychotic menagerie you saw in the original movie...Like, more like US, the audience; how would that play itself out? So the challenge here is to touch on all the same beats of the original story; but the characters are US, and this is happening now. And how would this work out? (Or put another way, this is sort of the Psycho story plugged into the Wicked formula; i.e. taking a classic story, flipping it upside down and making the villain the hero; etc)...Most of it works great. English actor Freddie Highmore once again proves he's an extremely gifted and versatile performer; and Verma Farminga proves the same; as Norma and Norman Bates, respectively. And they have excellent chemistry. I'd say this works better as a drama, or psychological thriller; rather than horror like the source material was. And there's times when they're straining for effects and kind of shoe-horning this story into the formula here. But it's always compelling and interesting.Verdict: thumbs up 👍!! RECOMMENDED!! Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/08/23 Full Review Claudiu I I like how they build up the characters. A lot of broken people ruining their own lives and others. I loved how they build up tension and suspense. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/04/23 Full Review Lukas-Jeremie K "Bates Motel" has cast two truly phenomenal actors in the leading roles with Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga!The acting of the supporting characters is often well done too!I also think the setting was very well chosen, even if this was already given here.However, the series takes a lot of time telling the story. It often happens that for a very long time almost nothing relevant to the story is told and the series just jumps from subplot to subplot. So the series only really grabbed me from the 4th season, because from then on it really gets exciting.I also think that the love and sex in the series is a little overdone. Hardly a male and a female character can meet without a sexual tension arising between them.Nevertheless, "Bates Motel" is a very good series if you have enough patience. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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