Geez, you turn around for a few minutes and suddenly “Bates Motel” is getting ready for its fifth season. A&E‘s unexpected hit series centered around the “Psycho” lodging will say goodbye after this next batch of episodes, but it’s going out with a bang.
Rihanna is joining the fun playing Marion Crane, who, as you’ll recall from Alfred Hitchcock‘s iconic movie, met her bloody demise in the first act. This time around, the team behind the show says the series will intersect with the movie, but also follow its own path.
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“We’re taking threads of that story and definitely using them so it’s recognizable, it’s just where we go with it is very different,” executive producer Kerry Ehrin told EW. “It’s tough to be in a situation where you’re in love with a guy, and for whatever reason, he keeps stalling. You still have all this hot sex with him, and he’s saying he loves you, but he’s stalling. The internal story of that, for a woman, is a really interesting one. We never really got to see that. In ‘Psycho,’ you just see the outside of that more. It was trying to do a story about a contemporary woman with some edge, with some expectations, who isn’t perfect, who isn’t always perfectly sweet, who is in that situation, but we’re rooting for her to get what she wants.”
That’s a heckuva tease. “Bates Motel,” starring Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga, will return on February 20th.
