The commercials for tonight’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist were a bit cringe of the “on a very special episode…” variety. I’m curious how the episode itself played amongst deaf people, because as a regular viewer of the show, to me that storyline played exactly the way every other storyline on the show has played. While the commercial pitched it as a “Zoey helps a deaf person be heard” story, the show played it as a “Zoey helps a father listen to his daughter” story—right in line with what the show does in every episode. It’s not that the specifics were unimportant, because they weren’t, but that they were right in the show’s wheelhouse of helping people connect with and understand each other.