Reviews

I adore this show. I watched it because I was bored and I became hooked. Unlike most other ABC shows, everyone can act and it is not a thinly spread, overdrawn plot that never changes.

When these two girls discover that they were switched at birth their lives were flipped upside down forever. Bay Kennish has grown up in a wealthy American family with both of her parents and a brother while Daphne Vasquez was raised in a middle class family with her single mother. The Kennish family invites the Vasquezs to live in their guest house. But live is not as easy as they thought it would be. While Katherine, Bay's legal mother, is all happy to meet Daphne and become like another mother to her, Regina, Daphine's legal mother, is not as eager. She feels that Bay would be ashamed of her. So between these parents trying to learn how to cope with trying to please other adults that opinions actually matter and the girls trying to adjust with living with each other and their social lives mixing, there is a lot of drama and emotions going on, but these emotions are actually real emotions that a person in their situations would feel.

Everyone should watch the magic that is Switched at Birth.

So the actresses are good actresses and the characters are deeply developed but the show is pretty much a soap opera. The first episodes are the same as the next episode that will be premiered. Four teenage girls trying to find out who killed their best friend. The killer commonly stalkers them and sends them messages as 'A'.

The show is also completely unrealistic. These girls had been stalked for over a year before they even thought of informing anyone. They went on these searches that would put them in much danger and the parents did not suspect a thing. I know not all parents are completely involved in their children's lives, but 4 girls who are best friends? I don't think so.

Final verdict? You might as well watch it if there is nothing better to do.