It contains the worst main plot (the Kennish/Sorrento lawsuit against the hospital) and the worst subplot (Daphne hooking up with her boss at a restaurant). Season 1: Episodes 23-29, "This Is the Color of My Dreams" - "The Trial" The only utter misstep of the entire series is the final stretch tacked onto the initial 22-episode season.
SWITCHED AT BIRTH SEASON 3 EPISODE 29 FULL
Those familiar elements-from love triangles to cheating scandals to teenage rebellion-are all emotionally stirring, but Switched at Birth is an opportunity to open minds up to considering how deaf people approach a world that is often not designed for them to achieve their full potential within it. It would have been easy for the network to produce another cookie-cutter soap opera along the lines of 7th Heaven, but creator Lizzy Weiss has shaped a world that takes familiar tropes of this television genre and maps them onto characters previously unseen on television before now. But there's also a wealth of nuanced discussion about disabilities, socioeconomic gaps, and the meaning of parenthood. So the show not only deals with the emotional turmoil of two families drawn together unexpectedly through a switch that retroactively explains so many differences, but it also pitches headfirst into the world of American Sign Language, deaf education, and audism.īecause it's on ABC Family, there's a healthy amount of Degrassi-esque emphasis on teenage romance and petty squabbling. Discovering the switch would be enough for a standard family melodrama, but Switched at Birth breaks ground because Daphne contracted meningitis as a child, which left her deaf as a result. Meanwhile, single mother Regina Vasquez (Constance Marie) took home Daphne (Katie Leclerc). Moffett), his wife Kathryn (Lea Thompson), and eldest son Toby (cas Grabeel)-went home with Bay (Vanessa Marano), whose artistic prowess never quite fit in with her athletic family. The wealthy Kennish family-former Royals baseball player John (D.W. Set in Kansas City, the show follows two families whose daughters were, you guessed it, switched at birth.
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