Bates Motel Season 6 Isn’t Happening
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Production info and storyline
Bates Motel is a US thriller television series that serves as a conceptual prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. It is based on the characters from Psycho by Robert Block, which is the book from which Hitchcock originally drew his inspiration. The series is developed by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin and Anthony Cipriano, and is a result of a joint production effort by American Genre, Carlton Cuse Productions, Kerry Ehrin Productions and Universal Television. The series originally debuted in 2013 and is currently in its fifth season, which premiered on February 20th, 2017. This will also be the last and final season for the show.
The psychological thriller portrays mother and son, Norma and Norman Bates, who purchase a motel in a remote part of an idyllic coastal town after the death of Norman's father. The events that follow give the audience a glimpse into how a serial killer was forged over the course of his formative years, and how his complicated relationship with his mother has affected him.
Overall ratings and the end after the fifth season
At first glance, Bates Motel has very impressive overall ratings with a strong 8.1 out of 10 stars on IMDb, in impressive 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.7 out of 10 on TV.com. Therefore it is somewhat surprising, that the viewing figures do not really reflect these high numbers, because over the course of the fifth season, the viewing figures dropped almost dramatically, going from over 3 Million for the very first episode to only 1.34 Million for the premiere of the last series. The demo ratings went also down quite a bit, from 1.6 to just 0.7, which is over 50%.
There is no denying, that the Award winning actress Vera Farmiga in the role of Norma Bates was the main driving factor for this show. Her insane obsession with her son and through that her bizarre behavior and strange decisions made the series into what it became. But her death at the end of the fourth season may have been one of the reasons, why people didn’t tune in for the fifth season, even though she didn’t completely disappear from our screens.
In any case, Bates Motel has run its course and will not be renewed for a sixth season.
Episodes
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dark Paradise | Feb 20, 2017 |
| 2 | The Convergence of the Twain | Feb 27, 2017 |
| 3 | Bad Blood | Mar 6, 2017 |
| 4 | Hidden | Mar 13, 2017 |
| 5 | Dreams Die First | Mar 20, 2017 |
| 6 | Marion | Mar 27, 2017 |
| 7 | Inseparable | Apr 3, 2017 |
| 8 | The Body | Apr 10, 2017 |
| 9 | Visiting Hours | Apr 17, 2017 |
| 10 | The Cord | Apr 24, 2017 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Danger to Himself and Others | Mar 7, 2016 |
| 2 | Goodnight, Mother | Mar 14, 2016 |
| 3 | 'Til Death Do You Part | Mar 21, 2016 |
| 4 | Lights of Winter | Mar 28, 2016 |
| 5 | Refraction | Apr 11, 2016 |
| 6 | The Vault | Apr 18, 2016 |
| 7 | There's No Place Like Home | Apr 25, 2016 |
| 8 | Unfaithful | May 2, 2016 |
| 9 | Forever | May 9, 2016 |
| 10 | Norman | May 16, 2016 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Death in the Family | Mar 9, 2015 |
| 2 | The Arcanum Club | Mar 16, 2015 |
| 3 | Persuasion | Mar 23, 2015 |
| 4 | Unbreak-Able | Mar 30, 2015 |
| 5 | The Deal | Apr 6, 2015 |
| 6 | Norma Louise | Apr 13, 2015 |
| 7 | The Last Supper | Apr 20, 2015 |
| 8 | The Pit | Apr 27, 2015 |
| 9 | Crazy | May 4, 2015 |
| 10 | Unconscious | May 11, 2015 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gone But Not Forgotten | Mar 3, 2014 |
| 2 | Shadow of a Doubt | Mar 10, 2014 |
| 3 | Caleb | Mar 17, 2014 |
| 4 | Check-Out | Mar 24, 2014 |
| 5 | The Escape Artist | Mar 31, 2014 |
| 6 | Plunge | Apr 7, 2014 |
| 7 | Presumed Innocent | Apr 14, 2014 |
| 8 | Meltdown | Apr 21, 2014 |
| 9 | The Box | Apr 28, 2014 |
| 10 | The Immutable Truth | May 5, 2014 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | First You Dream, Then You Die | Mar 18, 2013 |
| 2 | Nice Town You Picked, Norma... | Mar 25, 2013 |
| 3 | What's Wrong with Norman | Apr 1, 2013 |
| 4 | Trust Me | Apr 8, 2013 |
| 5 | Ocean View | Apr 15, 2013 |
| 6 | The Truth | Apr 22, 2013 |
| 7 | The Man in Number 9 | Apr 29, 2013 |
| 8 | A Boy and His Dog | May 6, 2013 |
| 9 | Underwater | May 13, 2013 |
| 10 | Midnight | May 20, 2013 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bates Motel: After Hours | Mar 3, 2014 |
| 2 | Bates Motel: After Hours: The Finale | May 5, 2014 |
| 3 | The Final Check Out | Apr 24, 2017 |
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