Bate Motel
In this next part of the unit we have to choose a TV series to base the next part of the project on.
We were given a list of shows to choose from, after looking through all the trailers i narrowed it down to American Horror Story and Bate Motel.
I then went on to watch the first few episodes of both series, i really liked both of them but Bate Motel caught my interest because of the mystery and secrets which came from the fathers death, the new village they live in and the families background. There is always something that isn't right with the family.
The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. The main characters are the mother Norma Bates, Norman Bates, Dylan Massett, Bradley Martin and Emma Decody.
All the characters above play a huge part in the series, as the series unrolls you find out more and more about the characters, especially Norma Bates. Norma Bates has a very interesting and abusive pass, when she was growing up she was sexually abused by her brother and her mum and dad were far from perfect parents. This is how she has a slightly unhealthy relationship with Norman as shes very over protective of him and cant seem to let him go. She wants him all to herself. This also has a huge effect on Norman as a character because hes very nervous to every betray his mother.
Norman in the beginning just looks like a normal young boy which hasn't got a lot of friends and maybe hasn't got many social skills because his mother smothers him so much he never had the chance to develop these skills.
As the series goes on you start collecting more and more pieces of the puzzle about why Norman is the way he is and why their family is how they are.
You start by finding out that Norman isn't just a normal boy there is something odd about him, you start finding this out because he kept the belt from the guy his mother killed when defending herself, you then start finding out that he has these black outs when hes angry or upset and doesn't know what hes doing and doesn't remember what he did while he was having one of his black outs. He then has one of these blackouts while in his teachers house and from what we think he ends up killing her because he thinks his mum is telling him too.
He then pushes someone down the stairs when getting angry at the father of his friend because he was being rough towards his daughter.
The village it is set in is a small country town with a hidden secret. The city council and the police ignore the fact that all of the towns money comes from drug money because there is a huge weed crop field in the forest, which is where the town gets all their money from and everyone is involved in this operation one way or another.
Another weird thing about this town is that there was a few people running a prostitution chain, this involved one police man, the man that used to own the motel and also a few other people in the village. Norman found a book of drawings in the motel room, this book showed drawings of a Asian girl being tied up and abused. At first he didn't really think anything of it, he then shows his friend Emma and she wants to find the girl in the book and they start doing some investigating. After doing some investigating Norman goes to the Cops house and comes across the girl all tied up in his basement. The girl from the drawings in the book was real and tied up in one of the policeman's basement.
I really liked the idea of this series because it has loads of hidden secrets and twists to the story which i really like and think it would be interesting trying to fit two other characters into the series. I will carry on watching the series and take notes of parts i really like in the series and see if i can fit two other characters in and plan a back story for them.
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