Bates Motel

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Neesy

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Son is a huge fan of wresting as well!
Wow - just saw my mistake now - Wrestling, not Wresting

to wrest:
wrench, snatch, seize, grab, pry, pluck, tug, pull, jerk, dislodge



My son Josh is going to see live wrestling this Friday at the MTS Centre with his GF - she bought him tickets for his birthday.
He was in his room last night figuring out what he was going to wear! (the kid is more organized than I am!)
 

Gerald

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I like it. I would have liked more if it was set in the forties or fifties before the actual movie story takes place. I don't know why they set it in the present - it just feels strange now. Norman grew up the way he came to be and then went back in time to wait for Janet Leigh to show up at the motel?

It's funny that there once already was a tv-movie based on Psycho, also called Bates Motel. And Psycho 4 was also a tv-movie, I seem to recall.

I like the guy they cast for Norman, but the mother seems too nice. She doesn't feel repressive at all for him to become the way he did. In Hitchcock's film you hear her voice coming from the house
which is Norman himself speaking in her voice
and she is very, very strict to him. In this series she seems quite a nice woman and mother, and they get along quite normally - it's just that bad things happen to her.
Actually it may be that over time because of these things, she grew more and more strict to him, for protection, but we'll have to see how that plays out.
 
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Christiane17

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I just started to watch french dubbie of that show. Currently, I'm just in the 1st season, but I am quite hooked to it. Of course it's not the same as the original pic, but why should it be? This is a TV series and the creation of atmonsphere is good imo. Also I like to see UTD's Mike Vogel acting. Love the cast and I'm quite impressed by the set decoration. Bates Motel looks as creepy as in the movie. Love it!!
 

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Well, it's my first chime-in to this thread, and I'm a fan of Bates Motel enough that I feel similarly, after last night's season finale, to when baseball season ends. But addiction is a good thing, they always say, so my grief must be healthy for me. I think the show is expertly cast. I agree that Freddie Highmore is unsettling, and that I suspect his being so in real life to be a perk for his acting, which I wonder about at times; while no one I can think of could provide a creepier smirk. Imho Vera Farminga is really excellent in the role of Norma. I think her recent performances have been wonderfully intense and informative in terms of showing her abnormal feelings for Norman (the scene where she informs him that she's having supper with a man and that she'll probably be late getting home - her expression when he answers "I won't wait up..." is perfect). Don't you love the fact that their mutual unbalanced state is symbolized in their names?

The other players are great, too. I think it's a great show, and really can't wait for the inevitable climactic confrontation anticipated by all of us familiar with the original story.
 
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blunthead

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i'm still a fan, but I don't like the after hours stuff for some reason. Not sure why. I watched it once and haven't since.
You'd think the after hours would enhance things, but it doesn't. I think that's because we aren't used to these people being who they really are, just who they are fictionally. It's a paradigm shift immediately following the dramatic exercise. Perhaps to see them in an interview or on Fallon instead; that might work.
 

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I am not fan of the after hours thing either. I was pleased to learn that Freddie Highmore is getting his exams done at Cambridge. Which means he is smart and wonderful actor. However, somehow with Walking Dead, the Talking dead works for me. I think perhaps because they have guests on the show that are at times, not the actors themselves.
 

blunthead

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How'd Hitchcock end up in this pic?!