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Bates Motel 2 Seasons 2013

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Season 1
(429) IMDb 8/10
Available in HD

1. First You Dream, Then You Die TV-14 CC

After the tragic death of her husband, Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga) buys a motel on the outskirts of an idyllic coastal town seeking a fresh start. Her handsome and shy teenage son Norman (Freddie Highmore) quickly catches the eyes of the local girls, much to his mother's horror. Norma and Norman soon discover the idyllic town isn't what it seems, and the locals will do anything to protect their secret.

Starring:
Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore
Runtime:
44 minutes
Original air date:
March 18, 2013

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First You Dream, Then You Die

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Product Details

Genres Thriller, Mystery, Horror
Director Tucker Gates
Starring Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore
Supporting actors Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, W. Earl Brown, Nestor Carbonell, David Cubitt, Keegan Connor Tracy, Mike Vogel, Richard Harmon, Emmalyn Estrada, Jenna Romanin, Conchita Campbell, Brittney Wilson, Stephen Boersma, Carolyn Adair
Season year 2013
Network A&E
Producers Cory Bird, Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, Tucker Gates, Justis Greene, Roy Lee, John Powers Middleton, Christopher Nelson, Jeff Wadlow, Jamie Kaye Wheeler, Mark Wolper
Purchase rights Stream instantly and download to 2 locations Details
Format Amazon Instant Video (streaming online video and digital download)

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$19.49
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$16.99

Customer Reviews

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Very suspenseful, keeps you on edge.
Donna K.
I love this show - I really can't wait for the next episode, I also watch the same ones over and over!
M. Nickell
The actors are all great and so well cast.
D. Clarke

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Holy Psycho, Batman!
By Amazon Customer on September 22, 2013
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
I'm kind of curious about some of the one star reviews here that rate it low based on the "violence and murder." What did these reviewers expect from show based on "Psycho?" A sweet tale about a boy and his mom? I mwan come on! These people should have known what they were getting themselves into right from the beginning. It's based on the most classic of classic horror films!

Anyway.

I'll admit, I was wary of this one when I saw the very first promo for it online. You don't mess with classics, and by all accounts, Hitchcock's "Psycho" is about as classic as it gets. Even more concerning was the apparent modernization of the tale. But the more I saw, the more intrigued I became. There was something about that creepy little smile of Freddie Highmore's that made me deeply curious.

I have to say, the first episode hooked me. Highmore plays young Norman Bates and his quirks with a creepy subtlety that pays homage Anthony Perkins performance in the original. He's humble, naďve, polite and mild mannered yet you can see that budding psychotic fighting to come through pretty early on. It's in no way overdone, and Norman is completely unaware of this other self. Yet you can sympathize with the kid. He's socially awkward and sometimes blunt and inappropriate, but even then, you can't hate him. Maybe it's knowing what he becomes that makes it sympathetic, knowing that this smart (mostly) nice kid has such a fate in store for him. Maybe it's just Highmore's portrayal of him, or a little of both. Either way, his journey into psychosis is a nuanced slow burn rather than an outright explosion. You can see it building slowly alongside the building tension from episode to episode, a little at a time.Read more ›
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57 of 65 people found the following review helpful
Yep, it IS Creepy but It IS Great Storytelling UPDATED
By Douglas C. Meeks TOP 500 REVIEWER on March 18, 2013
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Well after actually watching the first 3 episodes I can safely say that this is a truly creepy show :) The story seems good, the actors are almost perfect for their parts and Norman is slowly becoming the guy we all know and love (creepy!).

I think this show is going to make it if the writers don't get cold feet and start making it politically correct and less violent since this is about a person who will become a murdering psycho (ignoring the fact it is set in the present day rather than in the past) so we EXPECT him to do evil things sooner or later and his Mom's level of affection is plain uncomfortable (I did not want to overuse the word creepy again but she makes my skin crawl a bit)

This is MUCh more than a story about Norman getting older and stabbing a girl in the shower, this is a whole new series based on the premise of the motion picture but since it is set in the present day obviously it is not the same story exactly :) This is good storytelling.

Enjoy the newest reimagining of a great story.

UPDATE: Well just to repeat what another reviewer has said, this show really DOES get better with each episode, the first couple of episodes I thought were pretty good but by the end of episode 4 I was addicted and they keep getting better.
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Bates Motel Season 1 -- Thank goodness there will be a Season 2 !
By Emmett Glenn on June 7, 2013
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I was born after Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" hit the theaters, so I missed all the hype and promotional gimmicks, such as "No one will be admitted to the theater after the film has begun" and "Don't give away the ending" and the dramatic and traumatic trailers. When I saw the film for the first time, I had no idea that Janet Leigh was a huge star and how it was a Hollywood no-no to kill off the major star during the first reel. However, I did know the big revelation at the end before I saw the picture.

Still, the movie was spell-binding. The photography, the movement of the camera, the lighting, and especially the use of shadows gave the film a very creepy atmosphere of inescapable isolation. Combining that with subtle sound effects and a hair-raising score, the film became the perfect setting in which to tell a bone-chilling story using interesting characters. All that was needed was a great script and great actors to play the characters.

Based on the novel by Robert Bloch who was inspired by Wisconsin murderer Ed Gain, the screenplay's adaptation went to Joseph Stefano, who later helped develop the "Outer Limits" series. Stefano fleshed out the characters as best he could given the rather limiting format of a script. Hitchcock, who directed the film, added even more dimension to each character by envisioning every nuance and manner each would possess.

Hitchcock's casting was brilliant. He was very exacting and gave actors very little elbow room when it came to straying from his very precise direction. But his actors were strong enough and talented enough to allow their characters to come across as "real people," rather than as robots programmed to speak and move according to Hitchcock's instructions.Read more ›
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
okay, but not as good as the shill reviews claim
By Thomas M. Sipos VINE VOICE on February 21, 2014
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By now there are 299 5-star reviews for this DVD. Really?

Remarkably, many of the "reviews" are very brief, from people who submitted ten 5-star reviews to Amazon -- all on the same day. An indication that these are paid reviews. (You can find ads on Craigslist offering money for 5-star Amazon and Yelp reviews.)

Now, this is not a bad show, but neither is it remarkable. Some observations...

* The acting is excellent. A great cast of highly-talented actors makes this show watchable despite its faults, which are mainly in the story.

* The Norman Bates mythos has been updated to modern times. (The teenage Norman texts his friends.) This updating is a poor choice. Sherlock Holmes belongs in Victorian England. James Bond belongs to the Cold War. Norman Bates belongs to a more repressed pre-Sexual Revolution America.

* This show is more TWIN PEAKS than PSYCHO. A small town in the northwest, with lots of quirky characters and dark secrets, sexual and criminal. BATES MOTEL is TWIN PEAKS without the mysticism and sentimentality. That is to say, TWIN PEAKS's darkness was balanced with light, whereas BATES MOTEL's darkness lacks that balance.

Watching BATES MOTEL, I sensed that I was seeing a second-rate TWIN PEAKS knockoff, rather than something fresh and original. The cast, and the soap opera cliffhangers, held my interest. But it didn't feel like PSYCHO to me.

* Which leads to the biggest problem: Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates was a lunatic amid normal folk. But this younger Norman is a lunatic in a whole town full of sexual deviants and criminal psychopaths. (You have killer cops, a town that burns people alive, a pedophile teacher, sex slavers -- and that doesn't include the many lesser crooks.) This setting makes Norman less "special" -- it takes away his bite. If everyone's a psycho, is anyone?
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