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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

How is Bates Motel in your opinion?


6 posted on 04/18/2014 6:54:10 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: headstamp 2

Bates Motel is great IMO. Great acting by all cast members but particularly Freddy Highmore (Norman Bates. There’s mystery, intrigue, conspiracy with decent story lines and interesting characters that have their own quirks. Its basically a show that shows you what formed the man who became Norman Bates. The writers have certainly done thir homework on the psychology makeup of a serial killer, particularly the traits that manifest themselves in early childhood and the causes. I studied and read about that topic for years off and on as a hobby (plus it helped me understand a lot anout criminal psychology which helped me understand how they think nd thir motivations in my line of work). The writers nail it from beginning to end with the strong, overbearing, melodramatic, and controlling mothers who isolate them from other children physically and emotionally to the killing or harming of animals as a youth to their (sometimes) fascination with taxidermy and anatomy. He also witnessed someone being killed in his youth like Richard Ramirez, the Nightstalker did (he saw his uncle kill his aunt right in front of him if memory serves correct). Ramirez is one of the most evil and safistic serial killers that has ever existed.

Its a show that i could watch for 2 hours Instead of the one hour that it airs so I guess you could say I’m a fan.


33 posted on 04/18/2014 7:31:59 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: headstamp 2

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I think they are doing a great job with Bates motel.

It’s the bcd story to psycho with Norman in high schools. Fera Farmiga and the Kid who plays Norman nail it as far as I’m concerned.

Instead of a Cal off Hwy 99 small town it’s along the north coast, but looks like the set at universal with the house on the hole above the motel.

I think they are doing a good job and worth watching.


40 posted on 04/18/2014 7:54:12 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: headstamp 2

Bates Motel is a “can’t miss” in my house.

I also like “Justified”.

My wife watched “Fargo” and we’re going to start over on xfinity on demand.


70 posted on 04/18/2014 11:27:20 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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Fantastic... truly a well-written show.

So much imagery and language from the 1950s, yet with a modern touch. The mom (Norma Bates) is a hot mess, and her son Norman is a teenager in this series (14 y/o) and on the road to becoming a psycho. They also use Twitter, laptops, iPhones, new cars, etc., on the show — so it’s an infusion of the old and the new.

Carlton Cuse (creator) is fantastic, as well as the writers.


80 posted on 04/19/2014 9:58:58 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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