Italians Are Outraged by ‘Jersey Shore’: It’s ‘Trash TV’

“Jersey Shore” has started airing in Italy recently and, just as the cast is about to take a trip here to start shooting for season 4, there’s lots of outrage in the local media about how it’s “trash TV” that represents the worst of Italian-American stereotypes, it has emerged.

Granted, Italian-American communities took offense with the MTV original show the instant it started airing in the US, but that did not impress the network in any negative way.

With ratings going from great to excellent (“Jersey Shore” is the highest rated original program on MTV in years), it’s no wonder the network will push it regardless of the controversy it generates.

Viewers in Italy, though, are determined to sit this one out, judging by what representatives of the local media are saying.

As they see it, this is the worst television show ever, one that not only brings zero substance but also depicts the worst of all Italian-American stereotypes ever to exist.

“They embody the worst stereotypes of Italians, multiplied by thousands and Americanized,” columnist Roberto Del Bove writes in New Notzie (quotes via The Huffington Post).

“When I see this, I wonder whether [Osama] Bin Laden had a point,” a commenter on MTV Italia writes, taking the nastiness to a whole new level.

“Slicked hair, exaggerated narcissism, boundless love for the family and outlandish eccentricity,” Corriere della Sera says of the groups of friends.

These are just the most delicate things said about “Jersey Shore” in Italy right now, the Daily Mail also reports.

Though no one can actually do anything to stop the cast from coming over to shoot for season 4 or to have the show air on TV, voices online are saying “Jersey Shore” is definitely the sign of the apocalypse – or something along those lines.

“Pay attention, the contagion is coming,” DavideMaggio.it says, while Il Giornale brands the show “noisy and superficial” and, therefore, not worth the time to see it.

“[It has] clouded the minds of millions and millions of young people,” World Pay TV blog states.