The Switch: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

What do you get when you mix contract killing, teenage blues, LGBT rainbows, weirdness, and a murder mystery? Welcome to East Vancouver! It's the home of marginal living, social inequity, and Craneview Place, a former industrial site that's almost safe for human habitation. Meet some intriguing folks you might glimpse at the bus stop and not usually think think twice about. Each is coming out of their cocoon, but what's emerging – and how will the world deal with them?

The Switch follows a predominantly transgender cast (with all trans roles played by trans actors) as they navigate the social standards of two separate worlds — cis and trans, comfortable and struggling, familiar and bizarre — and work to build a sense of community out of their disparate lives.

It could be botching the metric system while buying things online, then trying to pay off debts by moonlighting as a text-message dominatrix, until the boyfriend suspects you're texting your ex, so you set up a double-date, which leads to a fistfight over the bill, and before you know it, someone is trying to mess with your medical records, which is a problem because you've already fudged them, and you have to deal with all this when your roommate is still a wanted eco-terrorist— and that's just one character.

Series details

• Title: The Switch
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 2016-07-25
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-08-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: OUTtv
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19371
• TVDB ID: 325312

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-07-25; final listed air date 2016-08-22; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Switch on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.