He's not killing Marion out of an obsession with Mother, as it was played out originally, but he's killing Sam as a stand-in for his own lying and cheating shitbag of a dad, and having him commit the atrocity as Norman further seems to show off how shattered he is inside. (Also, this scene was brutal as fuck, as opposed to the chocolate syrup innocence of Alfred Hitchcock's film.) Rather than letting Norma's persona take over his conscience, Norman instead lets her control him as Norman proper, adding another interesting alteration to the scene. To put these scenes side by side, the comparisons and contrasts are extremely easy to point out, as the creative team wisely played it as a homage (with the specific shots of the falling shower water and the feet slipping in the blood) with some additional visual input that the film didn't/couldn't show, particularly Norman himself. In the first place, Sam Loomis was awful, to the point where it wasn't even very fun to watch him, so killing him off was the right decision no matter how the A&E thriller decided to pull it off. And the idea of the person in the shower being Sam and being a type of a metaphor for Norman's own father who was violent and who had really started all of Norman's problems seemed so fitting to the story we were telling.įlipping something so recognizable and beloved as Psycho's iconic shower scene was going to get a lot of hate no matter how well or terrible it was conceived and performed, but ignoring that dependable bunch, I can't imagine most fans having a legitimate issue with Bates Motel choosing to let Marion live on in this universe, while her philandering boyfriend is forced to suffer such an unthinkable attack while trying to cleanse himself from the day. It was a big responsibility to take an iconic film and use in a way that both honored it but also integrated it into the story we were telling. That a major chunk of time out of our six months together. We talked about that episode for a long time in the writers room. Why did they choose to go with such a massive switcheroo? Here's what Ehrin says. Last night, Bates Motel came to a crossroads with its infamous source material, Psycho, by way of that most famous of cinematic sequences that needs no other descriptor beyond "The Shower Scene." While the majority of fans were waiting nervously to watch famed singer Rihanna fall victim to Norman's sinister machinations, creators/showrunners Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse flipped the script entirely by substituting victims, allowing Austin Nichols' Sam Loomis to paint the bathroom red as Norman (not Norma) looked on in wide-eyed fascination.
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