For season two of MTV's televised taste vacuum that is Jersey Shore I did weekly writeups here on Blogtown out of a real passion for trash TV and a burning need to muse about this show somewhere and unpack all the feelings it makes me feel. (My friends = not interested) The first season of the show was a huge hit and honestly one of the most addictive and off-putting shows I've ever been obsessed with. It was magic to watch!
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- "Waaah, I suck!"
But season two was different. Season two was ugly. The coked-up fights, the rampant misogyny, the gutter-level self-esteems... none of it was fun anymore! The naive, outsized senses of self-entitlement that made the cast so lovable and laughable had become an ugly self-fulfilling prophecy. My weekly updates were suddenly a chore and, ultimately, a vampiric task that left me hollow and depressed every Tuesday. This is how I closed out my last one:
Honestly, if I have any other final thoughts for this season they are sad thoughts. All I know is that months ago I started laughing at these losers on TV, enjoying the contrast between their disproportionately large egos and general worthlessness. Somewhere along the line I became the loser and they all became multimillionaires. Isn't it ironic that those egos seem totally justifiable now? Millions of people like me have spent hours feeding the Jersey Shore Neilsen ratings with our rapt attention, massaging our own self-superiority. But here I sit on the poverty level while somewhere DJ Pauly D is getting blown in the back of his Trans Am that's being transported by private jet to a secret island for rich people. The Guidos have won, everyone, and we handed it to them.
Now I'm not gonna start updating weekly again - I learned my awful lesson - but I will say this: holy crap is this show fun again! I don't mind the Jersey Shore clowns getting paid millions as long as they're funny clowns! Yes, it's backwards that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino makes more money than both Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama but I am content with that fact now that season three has begun.
Why after the jump.