'Bates Motel' Cast: Where Are They Now?

Bates Motel got here to an finish however the present’s stars, together with Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot and Olivia Cooke, have remained on our screens.

The A&E collection, which ran from 2013 to 2017, labored as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1960 movie Psycho. Based on Robert Bloch‘s 1959 novel of the identical title, each the present and the film centered on Norman Bates (Freddie) and the motel that later serves because the backdrop for his murders.

Bates Motel, nevertheless, units up the story by introducing Norman as a teen who makes the transfer to Oregon along with his mom, Norma (Vera Farmiga). The duo try to begin contemporary after his father’s sudden dying however Norman’s deteriorating psychological well being causes problems.

The closing season of the present loosely adopted the plot of Psycho, which launched Norman as an grownup working the motel whereas secretly holding his mom’s stays on the property. Bates Motel expanded on the world of Psycho by introducing new characters akin to Norman’s half-brother, Dylan (Thieriot), his greatest buddy Emma (Cooke) and a love curiosity for Norma a.okay.a Sheriff Alex Romero (Néstor Carbonell).

After the finale, Highmore weighed in on a doable reunion sooner or later, telling TVLine in 2017, “There’s no hope of coming back for another season or convincing people that we can just do a few more episodes at some point in the future [since Norman was killed at the end]. I’m not sure what the Christmas reunion would look like. Maybe Norma and Norman will be on a beach in Hawaii Heaven.”