Non Verbal and Verbal Communication TV- Show Activity

I feel like this week’s assignment was a little bit challenging because I had to watch unfamiliar television without sound. I am always up for a challenge so I chose to watch “The Carrie Diaries – TV show”. The show is about a young girls who lose her mother through cancer and live with her father and her younger sister. Her dream is to become a writer in New York City where big things happen. Thanks to Netflix I was able to watch five episodes without sound which was hard and my assumptions about what they are saying was wrong as well. I thought the three main characters were one big dysfunctional family. However they turned out to be one big cohesive, loving family. The non-verbal communications I obverse were their body language, facial expression, and a lot of hands movements. The insight I get from watching Carrie Dearie is that teenagers communicate with each other by doing a lot of yelling, their tone change throughout the conversation, such as high tone to low tone. They also expresses their feeling through non-verbal communication by walking away when they do not agree with the other person or locking themself in their room when their feeling are hurt through an event that happen.

            Now after watching the show with sound it was a different experience where I can make more sense of the characters. My assumption about the plot is that Carrie is fighting with her younger sister Dories being late for school. I was wrong; they were fighting about their dead mother’s hand-bag that Carrie wanted to take to school with her. What I like about this show is that the girl’s father show excellent effective communication skills. He listens and understands each girl independently and come up with a solution that solves the issue by letting Carrie pick another item from their mother’s things.  If I knew the show and I use to watch it before I will be able to predict what is going on between the girls and their father or my assumption could be correct. Overall my experience was great but I was hoping to have an “aha” moment because I love watching teen show but it was just a story about a girl who want to enter adul