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...Jersey Shore” follows four male and four female cast members over the course of one summer in Seaside Heights, a popular vacation destination forty-five minutes from my fond vacations to LBI. The housemates, who range in age from 21 to 28, boast artificial tans, breasts, and hair; the men are alarmingly muscled and the women are alarmingly under-clothed. They proudly self-identify as “guidos” and “guidettes”—terms considered ethnic slurs by outraged Italian anti-defamation groups...
...fact, it’s hard to find an organization that hasn’t publicly condemned “Jersey Shore.” Among the dissenting ranks are parents, anti-domestic violence activists, and actual residents of the Jersey Shore. Even dermatologists have criticized the show, warning against the excessive tanning it promotes...
...hair. The show’s creators have distilled something profound, because the cast’s lifestyle—vain, venereal, and violent—contains all our primal urges at a high concentration. Something halfway between a mirror and a nihilist manifesto, “Jersey Shore” presents us with the twenty-something human condition, reduced to its simplest form...
Vinny aptly summarizes the daily routine of the male housemates as “GTL”—an acronym for gym, tanning, and laundry. The “Jersey Shore” nightlife is its own exacting ritual of meaninglessness: drink, inexplicably get into a fight, and try to hook up with a stranger. Think Vladimir and Estragon at risk for serious liver damage...
...sense, “Jersey Shore” adheres to the formula first established by “The Real World” almost twenty years ago: eight housemates, ubiquitous cameras, copious alcohol. A drunk 22-year-old is a drunk 22-year-old is a drunk 22-year-old. Yet “The Real World” maintains the pretense of—the pun is inevitable—realism, casting such a predictably diverse group of people that they become their demographic archetypes. Each of the eight housemates fulfills a different quota, constituting a cross section...