Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~45 min/episode
- Length
- 5 seasons · 50 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-MA
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- parent child relationship
- small town
- motel
- prequel
- dysfunctional family
- serial killer
- single mother
- based on movie
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Nestor Carbonell
- Nicola Peltz
- Kenny Johnson
- Tracy Spiridakos
- Mike Vogel
- Ian Tracey
- Michael Eklund
- Paloma Kwiatkowski
- Michael Vartan
- Rebecca Creskoff
- Kathleen Robertson
- Directed
- Paul A. Edwards, Roxann Dawson, SJ Clarkson, Freddie Highmore, Steph Green, Max Thieriot & 14 more
- Created
- Anthony Cipriano, Kerry Ehrin, Carlton Cuse
- Written
- Alexandra Cunningham, Torrey Speer, Anthony Cipriano, Freddie Highmore, Scott Kosar, Jeff Wadlow & 10 more
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 1,803 ratings
- Network & studio
- A&E, Kerry Ehrin Productions, Cuse Productions, Universal Television, American Genre
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
