what Hitchcock did not show us was just as important as what he did show. And it’s on this very issue — when is violence too much? — that A&E’s “Bates Motel,” an inventive return to ...

The A&E original drama is incorporating iconic elements of "Psycho" in its final chapter, but Kerry Ehrin's psychological thriller wisely isn't promising the same ending. “Bates Motel” could ...

A&E's "Bates Motel" is no tribute to Hitchcock. If you remember "Psycho," you'll remember that director Alfred Hitchcock's power came from what you didn't see. You never actually saw Marion Crane ...

So given how Bates Motel threw the doors open on the expanded Hitchcock world, can we expect future TV series built around Rear Window, North By Northwest or other classics from the Master of ...

Bates Motel, A&E’s exploration of the early years of notorious madman Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore), begins to intersect with Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 film — including a multi ...

Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga on A&E’s “Bates Motel”; Anthony Perkins in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film “Psycho”. Maybe the old saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it ...

The times informed Hitchcock's film, and the character of Norman, and "Bates Motel" capitalizes as much as it can. But it's more difficult to get a handle on the character when Norman is out of ...

During a Bates Motel panel discussion Friday, Carlton Cuse was blunt about borrowing from a classic. No, not Hitchcock’s Psycho; TV’s Twin Peaks. “We pretty much ripped off Twin Peaks ...

Hitchcock skillfully portrays this idea in solo scenes as Marion driving to Bates Motel and the final scene as Norman sits in the police station, not as separate ideas, but rather a call and response ...

By Tim Goodman Bates Motel Screen Grab - H 2013 The Bottom Line Hitchcock devotees might think they know how it all ends, but this series takes the infamous Bates family in intriguing new directions.

the eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer will check into Bates Motel as Marion Crane, the character first made famous by Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1960 thriller Psycho. In one of the ...