Review: Switched at Birth

Switched at Birth

After a handful of Movie reviews over last couple of months... this time It was a TV show which made me write something, I am referring to a brand new drama on american television Switched at Birth - Monday at 9 on ABC.

Initially it was an interesting trailer before a movie with a different plot which attracted me to watch the first episode... but later the way the story is building up, it's almost impossible to miss even a single edition.

Switched at birth is a story about two families suddenly realizing that their teenage daughters were SWITCHED AT BIRTH in the hospital itself and one of them turned out to be deaf. How the families react and tackle the situation is just one part of the story... how the relatinships gets twisted thereafter is another!

The experience from this one is refreshing, a lot different from snail-pased daily TV Soaps ruling Indian television from last decade and half. My expectation from the story, thanks to Ekta kapoor's K-Soaps, is that one secret will not be revealed till 5 weeks and we will see various iterations of same expressions... ( You can't forget dialogs like Nahi... Nahi... Nahi..., later two being echo :)) which were the integral part of the drama; whereas being a weekly soap, what makes this different that by the time you realize oh... thats the secret of the story... every character knows it and have already reacted... which is someting which I have never seen before on TV(atleast in India, except movies like Malamaal Weekly and Jhonny Gaddar).

The other point which actually compelled me to write this blog... was various shades of Grey on which the characters were sketched in this drama... Not even a single person in the story, has a completely fair, or for that matter, dark side. This helps me to connect the situations with real life with a completely unexpected twist almost everywhere... which is again unusual from my past TV experiences. Where the central character never does something wrong and even If does it ends up adding another silver jubilee(25 episodes) to the series.

It's like enjoying a dish which explodes into delicious flavors in your mouth; something which makes you enjoy the cuisine to the fullest. All in all, atleast My monday appointment is fixed!!!

Stars [****]; keep in mind this is a consistent rating after 9 weeks. :)