History Series / BatesMotel

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Norma, who suffered and endured so much for her son, is still dead at his hands. Romero is killed, having been utterly broken by Norman's madness and his own destructive and failed quest for revenge. Norman himself is dead, having utterly descended into delusion and forced his brother to kill him. This removes him as a threat to society, but, despite his mental illness, they will always remember him as a SerialKiller. The true circumstances behind the deaths of Blaire Watson, Bradley Martin, Norma Bates, Gregg Edwards, Caleb Calhoun, and Chick Hogan will never be discovered. Amid all the destruction, Dylan and Emma are still alive and well with their daughter, but they are badly scarred by the losses they've suffered and, in Dylan's case, had to inflict.]]

All five of the series can be watched on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC iPlayer]] for UK viewers [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093qh6y/bates-motel?seriesId=p093qhf9 here]].

* OedipusComplex: To the point where Norman even confesses to Norma at one point that he has uncomfortable thoughts of being in love with her. She immediately tries to shrug it away as just being his teenage hormones and telling him it's not a big deal. This only seems to normalize the notion in his mind.

* CastingGag: Sheriff Jane Greene in the final season is played by Brooke Smith, who played the abducted girl that Clarice Starling rescued from serial killer "Buffalo Bill" in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.

%% * UnrequitedTragicMaiden: Emma.

The series kicks off with the sudden death of Norman's father, prompting Norman and his beloved mother Norma to set up a new life in the coastal town of White Pine Bay as owners of the eponymous motel. However, their relationship is far from stable and the town is hiding secrets of its own...