Bates Motel -2013- Jun 2026

What follows is the most audacious stretch of television in the 2010s. Season 5 is a remake of the Hitchcock film, but told entirely from Norman’s fractured perspective. Vera Farmiga does not leave the show; she returns as "Mother," the personality living in Norman’s head. She wears cocktail dresses, sits in the living room, and gives Norman permission to kill.

Bates Motel ended its run in 2017 to widespread critical acclaim. Freddie Highmore won the Critics' Choice Award; Vera Farmiga was nominated for an Emmy (a snatch that remains controversial today). bates motel -2013-

★★★★½ (Essential viewing for fans of psychological horror and family drama). What follows is the most audacious stretch of