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Bates Motel: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thierot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, Kenny Johnson, Kevin Rahm, Keenan Tracey, Ryan Hurst, Joshua Leonard, Peter Stebbings, Adetomiwa Edun, Andrew Howard, Nicola Peltz, Tracey Spiridakos, Anika Noni Rose, Wilson Bethel, Emilano Diez, Tom McBeath, Keegan Connor Tracy.

Bates Motel: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, Nicola Peltz, Ian Hart, Kennan Tracey, Ian Tracey, Aliyah O’Brien, Mike Vogel, Jenna Romanin, Brittney Wilson, Jere Burns, Emmalyn Estrada, Matthew Matdzij.

How do you top a film that routinely makes the top 100 lists of all time, how do you bring one of cinema’s scariest villains into the conscious of the television viewer without taking apart what made him such a compelling antagonist in the first place; the only way such a character as Norman Bates can return to the mind of the audience is to take him back to the very beginning, to the point where nature and nurture explore the madness within his teenage soul.