A program about the 'Jersey Shore' with New York City actors who have zero appreciation or knowledge of the Shore lifestyle? This might pass for some living in Iowa never having lived at The Shore. I spent 5 summer at the Jersey Shore, which allows me to say categorically: This may be a reality TV program only not about the Jersey Shore. This is probably about MTV reality, which helps explain why it's so terrible. The people who live in New Jersey had the good sense to recognize that their coastline, all 132 miles of it, consists of two very different social variations. The South Shore, from Seaside Heights to Cape May and the North Shore from Seaside Heights to Sandy Hook (Seaside being in the North Shore region). I'm not certain which Jersey Shore the program purports to reflect but having spent time in both, the truth is it reflects neither very well. The actors on this program are precisely the kind of people I knew in the less tony sections of NYC. They might head to a beach on weekends but they weren't Jersey Shore people. How do I know? I spent five summers at the Shore and I was immersed in the Shore lifestyle. I'd call this program an MTV Fantasy program! Collect as many dim bulb low life stereotypical Italian 'gum-bah' types as possible, find a few girls with big tits with blocks of wood for brains, make sure each actor is comfy using the F word on a camera (to give in that 'reality' feel), inject a few beach scenes 'for reality,' and viola! We get typical MTV trash: Crap acting, crap writing, crap direction, crap music! A winner!!!
Review of Jersey Shore
