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The Assassin
2025 · Drama · Crime
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Together until the end.
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.
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Season list for Bates Motel
Vera Farmiga
Norma Bates
Freddie Highmore
Norman Bates
Max Thieriot
Dylan Massett
Olivia Cooke
Emma Decody
Nestor Carbonell
Alex Romero
Nicola Peltz
Bradley Martin
Kenny Johnson
Caleb Calhoun
Tracy Spiridakos
Annika Johnson
Mike Vogel
Zack Shelby
Ian Tracey
Remo Wallace
Michael Eklund
Zane Morgan
Paloma Kwiatkowski
Cody Brennan
Michael Vartan
George Heldens
Rebecca Creskoff
Christine Heldens
Kathleen Robertson
Jodi Morgan
Jere Burns
Jake Abernathy
Richard Harmon
Richard Sylmore
Ian Hart
Will Decody
Peter Bryant
Doctor Levine
W. Earl Brown
Keith Summers
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January 1, 2024
Unrelated, boring, ridiculous. I don't understand how this non-existent story became so popular that it got its TV show. The "Based on an original movie Psycho from 1960" is just clickbait, this story has nothing to do with the movie except the names of characters and location. Most of the episodes are filled with absurdly stupid and unrealistic plot twists which make the whole show boring and unpleasant to watch. Th…
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