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When I’d finished watching the pilot episode of A&E’s Bates Motel, I was at a loss as to how to take what had been shown so far. Here we have a series that takes the story most of us know, that of Norman Bates and his mother Norma who both put a whole new meaning to the term ‘momma’s boy in the classic Alfred Hitchcock film ‘Psycho’, and puts it into a modern setting. But there’s a little more to the story than that and what Bates Motel seems to be is the ultimate what-if experiment. Take a classic story change the setting and add a few more variables plus do it at a more formative age for the famed antagonist then step back to see what happens.