Vera Farmiga on Bates Motel — goldenglobes.com

Has there ever been a more dysfunctional mother-son relationship than that between Norman and Norma-Louise Bates? Of course that deeply disturbed rapport was only hinted at in Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho; hence the genius of Carlton Cuse in creating a prequel series exploring the events leading up to that notoriously macabre epilogue. A&E’s Bates Motel is a case study in, ehm, overprotective parenting, paranoia and crime underpinned by extraordinarily well developed – and surprisingly human – characters. As the show gears up for a third season, the HFPA’s Scott Orlin spoke to Mrs. Bates – aka Vera Farmiga – about her character and the series’ thematic core.

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