This show made me wonder if someone could possibly turn Psycho into a weekly series nowadays. I know that Hitchcock would spin in his grave at the thought (he's probably just now starting to slow down from the spinning he did at the 1998 remake), but in the right hands it might be somewhat watchable. I say somewhat because supposedly the remake was in "good hands" & we all know how that turned out...
shareWatching BATES MOTEL now. Judging from the last half of the movie, I wonder if the TV series would have been something like TWILIGHT ZONE. In this series, each episode has a whole new cast and story all revolving around the Bates Motel. Like the pilot, then the first official episode could be a criminal on the run from a cop, then episode 2 could involve monsters under the bed, episode 3 has aliens, etc.
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The new Bates Motel is better than it really has any right to be but I seriously don't know how they could've sustained THIS variation on a weekly basis. Horror anthology shows were rampant in the late'80s/early '90s (Tales from the Cypt/Dark Side, Monsters, Friday the 13th, Freddy's Nightmares, Nightmare Cafe, etc.) but the Love Boat/Fantasy Island guest-of-the-week portion of this pilot doesn't work. 80% of the movie focuses on Alex and Willy, and then Barbara comes along and it totally shifts gears to her story -- suddenly it's like you're watching a completely different movie. If the next episode had monsters under the bed or aliens or whatever, it would've been even harder to swallow (I do have a soft spot for this pilot, but I'm the first to admit that it's a very bitter pill). If it had been more along the lines of the new show, focusing on Alex and Willy's struggle to keep their business afloat with a villain like Tom Fuller/Lila Loomis being hellbent on shutting them down, it might've lasted 13 weeks. The "Twin Peaks" approach sorta works but "The Twilight Zone" doesn't at all.
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