Right!! It’s not really true for Danielle in lives, although obviously conditions are quite different, but there she just looks a normal amount of attentive and friendly, it’s just sometimes on the show she looks really intense when it’s just a super normal scene. Like when she and the others were reacting to Emmett coming out:

Like, okay! It works SUPER well with Carina’s own genuinely curious interest, as that first bar scene showed. I really wish we had footage of that first table read, heh.