[TV Tuesday] Switched at Birth

Show: Switched at Birth

Genre: Slice of Life

Status: In Progress

Run Time: 42 Minutes

It’s finally Tuesday!

And Tuesday like other Tuesdays since March, it means only one thing – TV Tuesday!

Before I start writing about today’s show, there’s a question that has to be asked:

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to actually be like to be switched at birth?

Has there ever been even a single moment of your life what it would be like to grow up in a different family all your life believing that they’re your birth family? Only to realize through self-given blood test and finding out that your blood type is anything but of your own family’s that you grew up with?

In today’s show, Switched at Birth, that is exactly the case of two young high school girls, who later on in latter series attends college, by the names of Bay Kennish and Daphne Vasquez. Bay Kennish at birth was given the name of Daphne, Vasquez being the surname of her birthmother, but she was switched with Daphne Vasquez, who was given the name of Bay with Kennish being her birthparents’ family name from her father’s side. Bay is Puerto Rican, Italian, French, Algerian and Arabian, and Daphne is a Caucasian and one-eighth (1/8) Italian and, culturally speaking with having to have grown up with her switched at birth mother, Puerto Rican.

Between the two girls, they find out that they have been switched at birth when Bay gives herself a blood test, only to find out that she isn’t related to any of her family members due to her blood type not matching with any of them. From there, she goes into digging into her birth to discover that exactly who she was switched with. From there, she goes into discovering that her birthparents have gotten divorced over a fight of her birthfather having been cheated on with another man, and with even Daphne’s switched at birth mother living in a dangerous neighborhood, the Kennish family offers for Daphne and her mother to live with them in their guest house all the while having to even offer for Daphne to attend a private school, one of the best schools in the neighborhood, along with hiring a translator.

At the sight of “translator”, I’m sure there’s the main question rising of, “Translator for what?” At very young age, when still a toddler, it was discovered that Daphne had gone deaf due to an infection in her ear. And because of this, the school that Daphne had attended was Carlton School for the Deaf, which, as you may have guessed, is a school for the deaf children.

When going further into the story, more and more is discovered about what the two families decide to do, and how close of friends they become. And even though it’s not common for children to be switched at birth, it does not mean that it doesn’t and can’t happen. And for that, this series is best classified as a slice of life genre. With even all the slice of life, there are events that happen that could happen to try and make it even more realistic and more connectable to the real world, but don’t mistake it to be in a reality TV show style of a drama.

Want to know what it may be like to be switched at birth? Switched at Birth show is just the right show for you to follow!

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