BATES MOTEL TV REVIEW!

This is a review of the first half of the first season of the A&E series called Bates Motel. 

Dexter will be back in June with it's final season and we get another show about a serial killer, but is it as good?

Bates Motel is a modern day prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's biggest film, Psycho. It stars Freddy Highmore as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as Norma Bates his mother.

The show focuses on showing us a still innocent but with a doomed fate Norman Bates living with his mother who has decided to open a motel in a small town. Freddy Highmore gives us an excelent  performance as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as Norma Bates.

The real problem here is the fact that it's set in present time, which i have no problem with as long as they don't keep reminding me of it. But they do and that's a bummer, there's really no point plot-wise as why they would do it apart from making it more relatable to high-school kid's which you won't because it's a prequel to Psycho.

Psycho is great. It has many sequels which i'm not a fan of. But i wanted to see an actual prequel to it, i wanted to believe that all of that happened and then there's the movie, and i didin't feel i got that, what i got was a spin-off.

People will argue about this saying it's a prequel, but for me what the show producers did is take the character's from Psycho, do a modern version of them and then place the story before the actual movie happens.

But is the show good?

Hell yes. Even though it's not exactly prequelish, the show still delivers every week with great episodes which just leave you hanging for the next.

The writing isn't the best. It has great believable dialogue that lack's in the CW, but i just feel they make it seem like the 60's to make Norman Bates more Norman Bates. He watches old movies, he calls his mom "mother" which at the pilot really is strange but now we're used to it, who cares.

The show is on A&E and sometimes i wonder if it should be on Showtime but i have no problem with that so far.

Max Theiriot plays my favorite character, Dylan Masset. He's awesome. At first he comes in Episode 2 and you're like "i don't know", he kills it in episode 3 and episode 4.

The show has already been renewed for a second season which if you follow us on Twitter (@Splash_Reviews) you'd know.

I felt as though they were moving to fast with the Norman Bates will become crazy idea but then they slowed it down. And Norman is really relatable, it's weird.

The show has some great shots too, on ^ shows a shot of Norman leaving the motel at night, and it's a great shot.

There's a pretty cool twist at the end of Episode 3 which makes me think "that's the story line we need", i guessed what would happen on Episode 4's end but it was still good.

There's some high-school bullshit on the show, Bradley makes it feel like that, i like the end of Episode 4 because of Dylan not because of here. If you watched it it, you know what i mean.

Should you watch it?

Yes, stop what you are doing and watch it. It's a prequel to Psycho, just try it out, it get's better as it goes it's a great show.

So overall:

"Bates Motel's acting and gripping twists makes up for the fact that it's set in modern day. Freddy Highmore manages to make you related to perhaps the most unlikely person. The show will make you interested and that's what matters."

8.7/10 (Great)