Norman, the friend she had a crush on, ended up killing her cheating husband Sam (Austin Nichols) and she wound up with no one.Ĭruse. Then there was poor Madeleine Loomis (Isabelle McNally). It wouldn’t be a shock to Dylan to learn that Caleb ended up meeting his demise as a result of Norman. Dylan has no idea that his father/uncle Caleb) is dead after being held captive in Norman’s basement.Ĭuse: My feeling is that they’ll find Caleb’s body at some point. He got what he deserved.Įhrin: Chick was also telling Romero about how Norman dug up Norma’s body and how Norman loved his mother and all this stuff that Romero was just not in the mood to hear! Chick made a series of very tenuous moral arguments about why he should be doing what he’s doing, but they don’t really stand up. And then it definitely went off a cliff, which is understandable.īy Romero killing Chick (Ryan Hurst), the writer working on a book that meant to be a version of Psycho, did you mean to imply that there shouldn’t be another version of the original? Sort of an inside joke?Ĭuse: Chick was ultimately full of shit. Loving Norma always led to bad outcomes, didn’t it?Įhrin: Romero’s was a normal love-until Norma died. Norma tended to engender dangerously obsessive love not just in Norman and her brother Caleb ( Kenny Johnson)-Dylan’s father- but even in Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell), the mostly sane sheriff who married her and went nuts after her death. It’s more about how people get lost by bad decisions, by secrets, by not living in the light, by not living in the truth. Emma’s mother was a lost person Bradley was a lost person by the time she died. I think it’s more that they were lost than they’re bad. We tried to approach all the characters in the show as morally complex. With perhaps the exception of Bradley (Nicola Peltz).There was a rapist, an adulterous liar, a high school teacher who seduced her student, a mother who deserted her child, a hit man.Įhrin: That isn’t to say that they deserved to die. Norman had to die for his sins but almost all of the people the Bates killed were bad folks. It is our hope that they do have a meaningful happy life together.ĭo you see this as a morality play in some ways. Love and therapy-you can do a lot with that. The Titanic will live inside of them, but human beings are built to survive. That wasn’t some rose-colored, Norman-type fantasy was it?Įhrin: It wasn’t a glossy happy ending. Speaking of Dylan, was that sweet short scene of Dylan with his wife Emma (Olivia Cooke) and their daughter a real happy ending, considering that both had parents who were murdered and Dylan killed his brother. Related Guest Column: Freddie Highmore on Becoming 'Psycho' for 'Bates Motel' It’s such a profound relationship that Dylan has with his mom and his brother that he should be the one who facilitates Norman’s being able to go out of the world felt right. There were indicators pointing to that, however, probably as early as the second season. Was Norman’s killer always going to be his brother Dylan?Įhrin: We spun out different scenarios. This was the inevitable fate that these characters had to meet. In this world, that kind of love could never truly survive. We always viewed this as a story about these two people who loved each other passionately. Why did the story have to end with Norman’s death?Ĭuse: Romantic tragedies don’t end up in a happy place. And this last season when Norma had died, you’re completely on the ride with Norman. We tried to drive the story where you were in either Norma or Norman’s shoes at any given time. We were really excited about the idea of figuring out who Norman Bates’ mother was and how she influences his life how he got to where he was. And also, it was as much the story of his mother, of Norma. Did that change in emphasis give you almost complete freedom?Įhrin: Definitely. But then, Bates was Norman’s story, not one about a lovelorn thief who stops at the very wrong motel. Your ending for Norman couldn’t be any more different from Psycho’s. Įhrin and fellow EP Carlton Cuse share their thoughts about Bates Motel and their choices in how it ended. In the end, the delusional Norman ( Freddie Highmore) forced his brother Dylan (Max Theriot) to shoot him so he could reunite with his beloved mother Norma (Vera Farmiga). Marion Crane lived and Norman Bates died! In its five years through to April 24’s perfectly wrapped up, emotionally satisfying finale, A&E’s Psycho prequel, Bates Motel, more than lived up to the movie that inspired it. Why Netflix’s ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile’ Is ‘Unique’.‘SEAL Team’s Max Thieriot on Jason & Clay’s Fight and a ‘Bates Motel’-like ‘Reveal’.
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