Bates Motel(2013)

series - first aired/released 2013-03-18 - audience 8.1

Drama, Crime, Mystery

Directed by Christopher Nelson, David Straiton, Ed Bianchi, Freddie Highmore, Johan Renck, John David Coles, Lodge Kerrigan, Max Thieriot, Nestor Carbonell, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Paul A. Edwards, Phil Abraham, Roxann Dawson, Sarah Boyd, SJ Clarkson, Stephen Surjik, Steph Green, Tim Southam, T.J. Scott, Tucker Gates

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.