Totally agree. There's something weirdly and creepily heteronormative about this plot line. Like real queerness only leads to sadness and dissolution - the best bet queer folks have is to ape heterosexuality….

Carrie, I think the reveal of that social climbing girlfriend of Jack's in the flashback is the show establishing something it plans on paying off in the future. "Mandy" had the most direct contact with the girlfriend, and she might remember the present-day Emily if she were ever to show up again, right?

Carrie - First off, thank you!  If it weren't for you starting up these reviews I never would have tried Switched at Birth and I am hooked - watched all 10 eps on Netflix in 2 days, weeping joyfully.

Rowan, I love you. This episode blew me away we I watched it weeks back, and your recap does it total justice. You're fabulous.

Didn't this reviewer admit he'd barely seen any of this show in a different post on what to review between seasons of the Sopranos?  And yet he feels qualified to give this a "B+"?  Is this Leonard Pierce redux?

I'd like to offer another way of thinking about the reveal of what Sandy does in her journal - that it isn't a moment when the series elides giving us insight into Sandy, but actually is very revealing: there's the way Sandy has drawn her own name underneath the portrait of the flower in large, looping script - Sandy…

@avclub-5fd14fc7a83b79e976652d8c4abecc78:disqus I do not want to live in that universe. Nick's body is great by any healthy, normal standard of beauty.

Isn't anyone else bothered by the show asserting that Nick is chubby?  Weird, gross male body dysmorphia….

I thought the moment with Zach asking for the car was meant to show not that he is aware of who Will is to her and isn't broaching the subject, but that he's just a selfish teenager and Alicia may worry that he's picking up on her relationship with Will but, in reality, he's just thinking about his own wants and needs…

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Isn't the point of this show that people are fallible?  That they're lovely/compassionate and selfish/destructive in equal measure?

Go Jasmine!  You deserve a hot doctor and who cares what Crosby's feelings about it are.

This is a cute show.  Hahn's fantastic.  I think Azaria is sort of hard to take as a romantic lead.  He's not charming, really.

Strong disagree here: the second ep was funnier.

The Lorelai/English Teacher chemistry is super good and I love it.

Also, did they cast a redhead as the "best friend" as a coy reference to Willow in Buffy, to subliminally trigger some kind of pleasure response in the audience?  Also, is the redhead wearing a wig?  Now I'm done.

Is the redhead played by Mayim Bialik?  That's all I care about.

Esther kicking ass briefly
It was sort of Buffy-level exciting to watch Esther turn the tables on IckyFace and kick his ass, with believable awkwardness. I cheered! Then the dumb show ruined it by having her throttled by IckyFace and then "rescued" by HamsterCop and I hated it.