A&E has come up with a new popular hit television show for the year, Bates Motel.
Bates Motel is on its second season on the network, and this season has a lot of anticipation behind it. The characters are more intense, and the storyline is both scary and exciting at the same time.
The idea for the show came from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), which tells the story of a woman who visits a run-down motel, the Bates Motel, and finds a strange owner named Norman Bates, who ends up murdering her and is discovered by the police that he keeps his dead mother in the cellar of the hotel. The Bates Motel series is a prelude to that movie, showing Norman Bates as a teenager living in Bates Motel with his mother, Norma Bates. Although the viewer sees that Norman is a strange kid from the beginning, it is slowly revealed throughout the series just how twisted his mind is and how he sometimes becomes a very destructive person who cannot remember what he has done. Norma Bates is not just trying to save her motel and keep it running, but she is also trying to keep Norman out of trouble, which seems get harder to do as the series goes on.
The first season of the series outlined what the show is about, but in the second season, the characters personalities are starting to show through more and who knows what will happen next? Norman’s teacher mysteriously winds up getting murdered after a visit from Norman, and Norman’s closest friends are shown more in this season with their own stories and troubles that are still unexplained. Norman has also started the strange hobby of taxonomy and seems to be obsessed with morbidity, and his mom is getting worried. Are they ever going to figure out who killed Norman’s teacher? Is Norman going to become more twisted in the head? Is Norma going to be able to keep her motel? So many questions need to be answered, and who knows if they will ever be.
The second season just began, and there is plenty of time to catch up on this interesting series. Tune in to A&E on Mondays at 8 p.m. to watch what will happen next at Bates Motel.
