Onto another hot mess of reality shows and perhaps the biggest hot mess of them all: Jersey Shore.
To be completely honest, there is not a lot of material to say about Jersey Shore that isn't already said.
You could agree with every major criticism posed by people who hate the show, that it is a vapid and annoying chunk of thirty minutes that serves no purpose. That is true, but where the Hills was extremely annoying with it's false pretense of being a real show, Jersey Shore for the most part seems largely unscripted. Also, on The Hills the assembly line cut outs of extra gorgeous people with little to say and even less to actually talk about--nothing progresses on the show...ever. So if a show that can succeed on being about nothing, revolving around nothing and in large sum just a big ZERO can inspire pop culture following, why can't the kids on the Shore?
The cast members of the Jersey Shore have no large ambitions to work in the plastic bubble city of Hollywood nor do they perpetuate a myth that they have real talent. In short, they want to party and they want to party hard.
What makes the show a runaway success is that not only does it narrow in on America's fascination with spectator living, but it closely resembles what many of its demographic would actually do given the opportunity. Its a show that shows America what a majority of its youth are actually doing.
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