You will find no more enjoyable a read here at CHUD than Josh’s entertaining breakdown of the Psycho series (collected here). That said, my Minnesotan brutha from another mutha’s going to have to add another Franchise Me entry some point in the future now that we’re finally getting a look at Bates Motel, a modernized re-interpretation of the events leading up to the 1960 Hitchcock classic.
Vera Farmiga is a fine actress but, admittedly judging from this brief amount of footage, she deserves better than this. I’ll give the show a try but there’s just too many questionable decisions at play. How can the show be both a prequel to Hitchcock’s film and set in the modern day? Why do we need to know about Norman’s life before Psycho? Isn’t that the sort of curtain jerk that makes our most sinister characters less scary? Where are my keys? Gary, are you reading this? Can you stop by the store and pick me up a 12-pack of Mello Yello Zero?
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Hitchcock isn’t spinning in his grave. He’s dug out of his grave and has cracked open the skull of an A&E executive to feast on his brain…what little there is of it.
“… Bates Motel, a modernized re-interpretation of the events leading up to the 1960 Hitchcock classic.” I think that decision right there distances itself from the classic right there. This is it’s own entity. Also, it was a book before it was a classic film, and I’m sure if people back then had the internet there’d be tons of eye rolling and “oh god they cut the best parts out of the book…” with the film release. Remember Hitchcock himself even did a remake of one of his OWN movies. This looks great. I’m far more concerned for NBC’s HANNIBAL. mainly because at least A&E can get away with “The Walking Dead” level violence and sex (which it looks to have) and the material deserves.
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