Bates Motel (TV) - Get Your First Look At Norman And Mother

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With the holidays bearing down on us, it's important to remember that there's always a family more dysfunctional than your own. On A&E's series Bates Motel, debuting in spring 2013, Freddie Highmore will play a younger Norman Bates — the oedipal killer in Alfred Hitchcock's masterwork Psycho — living with his very beloved mother (Vera Farmiga) at the iconic lodging. But showrunners Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) say the series won't be limited just to what occurs in the rooms (and showers) of the motel. ''The town itself is very much a character in the show,'' Cuse says. ''There are a lot of secrets that lurk beneath this bucolic veneer.'' So maybe the Bateses aren't the only ones harboring some unhealthy psychological issues? After all, as someone once said, we all go a little mad sometimes.