Commumication Skills:Language, Nonverbal, Listening

For this week's assignment, I decided to watch a show my husband watches on a regular basis, but I do not watch with him. I had a hard time convincing him to watch it with me with no sound, but he agreed when I told him it was for school. We watched Storage Wars on A&E. Initially, I could see that the majority of the characters were serious at the start of opening each storage unit. I observed all but two characters kept strait faces and as the camera went from character to another and back again, they were each showing narrowed eyes and deep eyebrows, which made me believe they were all unhappy with each other. Two of the characters were happy all of the time, which I observed through smiling faces and open eyes. I also observed the two kiss at one point, on the cheek in a light way. It led me to believe they were in a relationship of one kind or another. One was male and one female.
When we watched the episode again, with the sound on, I observed that I was correct that all but the two characters did were not happy with one another. They were bidding on storage lockers and when the camera went back and forth between the two characters, it was because they were bidding each other up. The two that I observed kissing lightly I realized were in a romantic relationship because the man called the woman,"babe". My husband informed me that from a different episode that they were actually married. Without knowing that, I still would have been able to see they were in a relationship. Since my husband is familiar with the show, he already knew what the relationships were, and he knew that the majority of them didn't like each other while they were bidding. If I had been watching a show I knew well, I would have known what the relationships were, and would not have been looking for nonverbal cues to determine the ralationships.