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Bates Motel: Freddie Highmore to Write on Season Five

by Jessica Pena, June 17, 2016

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Freddie Highmore is headed behind the camera on Bates Motel. Deadline reports the actor will write for season five of the A&E series.

For four seasons, Highmore has played a young Norman Bates on the drama, which tells the story of Norman and his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), before the events of the film Psycho. The show has already been renewed for a fifth season.

Season five won’t be Highmore’s first time as a scribe for the series. The actor wrote episode eight of season four, titled “Unfaithful.” Additionally, Highmore has sold a pilot to the British network Sky.

Bates Motel executive producer Kerry Ehrin said they know the ending for season five already:

We have guideposts and we know the destination. How exactly we’re going to get there… that’s kind of the fun of writing it, and that’s what we’ll be doing when we get back in the writer’s room.”

Highmore added that season five won’t necessarily end with the events of Psycho:

I don’t think the writers necessarily see the show ending with Marion Crane pulling up to the house and it being like, ‘Norman’s arrived,’ you know? There’s certainly this openness as we get towards next season of moving past events in Psycho, or there’s that fluidity with the storytelling.”

What do you think? Do you watch Bates Motel? Are you excited that Highmore is returning as a writer for season five?


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I agree with Ruthann. We are addicted. I am willing to beg for the series to continue. The cast is fantastic.

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I think that it would be crazy to END this series !!!! LOTS, and I do mean LOTS, of people love, love, love this series. In Pyscho, Norman Bates was no where near 17. He might have been in his late 20’s or even early 30’s, so teh show could go on for quite a while & I don’t see the rush in ending the show. It just seems that many times, a great series will end long before it has to, and this is definitely a great series. So I won’t beg for this series not to end because… Read more »

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