Alex West is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Bates' California hometown and with a little help from a teenage runaway, Willie, Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother?
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Norma lies to Norman about things he has done while blacked out in an attempt to protect him and because she believes he is technically innocent since he is mentally ill. This may be interpreted as gaslighting.
Norman does taxidermy so some dead animals are shown while he works on them or after they are stuffed. There is one scene where he hallucinates that a bird he is stuffing comes back to life and tries to escape his grip. Blood is shown in this scene as he cuts into the bird. Ornithophobia trigger for sure.
There's a rape in the first episode, it is very graphic and upsetting. A character discusses being raped by her brother as a child. Rape is brought up quite often actually. And in season one, there is an arc about human trafficking using I think Chinese girls as sex slaves.
In season one, this happens to two people. Neither shown on fire while alive on screen. But the first one is a car crashes, and the door opens to reveal a still living, badly burned man, no fire, but graphic wounds. The second time, it is a dead body, so maybe not? But the body is hanging from a pole, on fire.
Not technically, but Norman has blackouts and these could be considered potentially traumatic for someone? He basically goes into a waking but catatonic state, or becomes very violent.
Mild, but there are a few times when characters appear almost out of nowhere. We're leading up to Psycho here, guys, there's gonna be at least some slightly scary stuff.
Spoilers ahead
Happens in the first episode of the first season, Norman is sat at a table eating lunch at school when he looks down and notices blood on his shoe, left from when he and his mum moved the body of Keith Summers, he promptly runs up the steps behind him and is seen and heard throwing up into a bin. At around the 36 minute mark on Netflix times, lasts a fair few seconds. Skipping ahead by about 30 seconds should get you past it.
No, but a character does have a terminal disease, something with her lungs, can't remember the name.
She does not die from this disease last I saw, I'm still in season 4.
A character admits that she was sexually abused by a family member for several years and this has a deep impact on her. Later it is revealed that some of their relationship was consensual though misguided by their shared traumatic childhood.