To be honest, I didn't have very high expectations for this show when I first decided to give it a shot. It's not an amazing, in-depth look at the deaf community, nor is it particularly believable as a family drama. But I was pleasantly surprised by how much I have enjoyed it thus far. "Switched at Birth" could easily become great-one of those rare shows with near-universal appeal-but it could just as easily become unwatchable, a turgid morality play in which Sir Fix-a-Lot and the Knights Exemplar battle Baron von Bias for the soul of Everyteen … Expand It's ok in the pilot, which introduces a dozen or more characters, but the impulse must fade, along with our recollection of the show's improbable premise, if the show is to realize its immense promise. Pulling in the other direction, however, is a drive to schematize, to set the moneyed, athletic, diplomatic strawberry-blond charmers apart from the destitute, artistic, cynical brunette rebels.
Particularly fine are the show's three deaf actors (Leclerc, Sean Berdy, and Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin), who have such talent and charisma that I can almost understand ABC's compulsion to jump on their coat tails and ride around signing "We were here first!" More pluses: some of the writing is wonderful-smart and disciplined, willing to pass up an easy laugh to help build character.
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Moffett), proven TV stars (Lea Thompson), and dazzling newcomers (Katie Leclerc). The cast is strong and varied, including accomplished film and theatre actors (D.W.
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That said, I think this series has GREAT potential. Moreover, I believe that parenting, deaf culture, and class bias are important issues-important enough to be treated with subtlety. Just to be clear: I'm not an art-for-art's-sake aesthete I've played on Team Horace since a seventh-grade production of "El Mago de Oz" brought down the "English Only" signs in my middle school cafeteria. The pilot preaches the gospel of: (1) adoptive parents versus birth parents (2) deafness as culture, rather than disability (3) the danger of class-based stereotypes in self-expression, self-destruction, and self-adornment, among other things. But that's a minor problem compared to the relentless sermonizing. Yes, the "oops, wrong baby" plot predates daytime television, as a joke about Mark Twain acidly reminds us, but "Switched" uses the soap opera version: a bombshell from the blue, unmotivated and unsuspected. Yes, the "oops, wrong baby" plot predates daytime television, as a joke about Mark Twain acidly reminds us, but "Switched" uses the soap At the moment, "Switched at Birth" looks like a cross between a daytime soap opera and an Afterschool Special-er, make that FIVE Afterschool Specials. At the moment, "Switched at Birth" looks like a cross between a daytime soap opera and an Afterschool Special-er, make that FIVE Afterschool Specials.
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