Bates Motel on A&E - Anyone Watching? *

Also, setting this show in modern times means the characters would have knowledge of the actual movie Psycho, if only by way of pop culture media saturation. C'mon, it's an oft studied/debated classic and there's no way they wouldn't be aware of it. That being said, there's no way to explain away Bates Motel as a true prequel, other than in an art-imitates-life kind of way. That's what doesn't add up and what I find difficult to wrap around my brain.

 

It's not intended to blend seamlessly into the Hitchcock classic, obviously. I think some of you are thinking way too hard or just putting too much effort into rationalizing not giving it a chance in the first place. It's not that hard of a show to understand.

 

Production in Vancouver is slowly dying because Montreal and Toronto now offer bigger tax breaks. I sometimes go to Langley on business, I'll check out the Bates Motel the next time I'm there. I liked the first episode, I think it caught some of the creepiness of the original. On the other hand, I want to live in this fictional town where a guy can be surrounded by babes who invite him to wild parties the instant he arrives.

 

Which is what "Twin Peaks" did, at least during the first season. I can live with that.

 

I don't recall ever seeing Agent Cooper texting.

 

I can't believe they didn't ante up to license the Hitmen song on which this show is based.

At least, from what I read, the guys in The Hitmen are going to get residuals for the show.

 

True, but Cooper did use a portable miniature tape recorder while surrounded by girls who wore 50's style skirts and shoes and hung out in a diner.

 

Sort of like Rachel Sweet!!

 

I hadn't thought of that! Now if I only I could live in a world where Rachel was still releasing records.

 

I thought the 1st episode was good. The time period problem doesn't bother me for some reason. You just have to not think and overthink it (something I'm good at!). The kid was really good and must have studied some film as I thought I saw some Anthony Perkins mannerisms in there. And is it just me or was that teacher that was talking to Norman scary looking or what...

 

Yeah I thought the teacher was weird too. It almost seemed like there was more going on there - like she was going to make a pass at him. I swear she was in another movie I saw - maybe one of the Final Destination movies?

 

Scary looking? This woman? I think she's super cute. But I'll be Norma won't be so fond of her.

She was one of the main characters in Final Destination 2. She also plays the recurring role of The Blue Fairy in Once Upon A Time. I remember her from Battlestar Galactica.

 

Thanks. I knew I had seen her before. I didn't recognize her in Once Upon a Time.

 

It was ok. I never envisioned Norma Bates as a MILF though. More of like an Ellen Corby/Grandma Walton type.

 

Wasn't this already done with Anthony Perkins and Henry Thomas ( quite well, I'll add) in Psycho IV: The Beginning?

 

Heard a rumor that they first pitched this show to PBS under the working title "Downton Stabby" .

 

The kid is great. He is British and played Charlie in the Tim Burton Chocolate factory film.

 

It's gotten huge ratings so far, the biggest hit on A&E ever, I believe:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/03/19/bates-motel-ratings-record/

 

I love Vera Farmiga soooooooooo much!!

 

Finally caught it today. It's pretty dark, but interesting. I may have to go for the whole season.

 

I agree. Anything that puts her on my TV once a week is okay by me!

 

I
had
no
clue.

Reading that wiki entry has now ruined several movies for me and will probably give me nightmares for six months.

 

New episode - number 2 tonight in about 35 minutes.

 

Interesting.....they just quoted William Blake's The Tyger. This is the same verse that is used in The Mentalist when referring to Red John.


Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

 

You're thinking too hard. What if this is a world in which the events of Psycho and the movie never took place? That isn't so hard to imagine, is it?

Doh, that's a Wikipedia entry I wish I had never read...