Switched at birth season 3 overview series#

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.