![]() ![]() ![]() The harder job, though, fell to Freddie Highmore, the young British actor who took on the role of Norman. Vera Farmiga as Norma has been an anchor right from the first episode - alluring and vulnerable, deliciously walking the line between functional and unhinged. “Bates Motel” is a prequel to its story, giving us Anthony Perkins’s character, Norman Bates, as a teenager, with his mummified mother, Norma, still very much alive. ![]() That movie, of course, is “ Psycho,” Alfred Hitchcock’s landmark 1960 film. As it starts Season 3 on Monday night, it has evolved into a deftly acted story of small-town dysfunction, creepy when it needs to be yet far more wide ranging than the movie that inspired it. When it began in 2013, the A&E series “Bates Motel” was an intriguing idea with uncertain staying power.
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