Bud, Not Buddy has 78,894 ratings and 4,210 reviews. It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on th...
Norman Bates Played by Freddie Highmore. A smart, quietly funny, handsome and sometimes shy seventeen-year-old boy with an intensely close bond to his mother. Norman is resistant to starting over in a new town, but begins to change his mind as he spread his wings a little. Freddie Highmore.
The core of Bates Motel is the relationship between Norman and Norma, which executive producer Kerry Erhrin (Friday Night Lights) noted is âobviously oedipal.â Farmiga though said that approaching Norma Bates, âI got into wanting to defend who that woman was.