"Jersey Shore" returns: It's a complex show about the nature of sin
With Season 2's debut, we now see "Jersey Shore" in a whole different light than when it debuted just before Christmas, says Hank Stuever. "The key to 'Jersey Shore's' charm is that it's not a social study," he says. "As stupid as it looks, and as much as you can hate yourself for watching, it's a complex show about the nature of sin. There's a tendency to examine it too cerebrally in that regard, to think of "Jersey Shore" as pure performance art. Sometimes critics can be wrong in typing too many words."
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The expanded 90-minute episodes means whole lot more dressing down on each episode, which makes the judges seem all the more ruthless. "When I reflect upon Season 7, we barely see the Q & A between the judges and the designers," says Tim Gunn. "We barely hear anything out of the deliberation. You get a sound bite, when in fact the Q&A and the deliberation go on anywhere from four to six hours. So you think about it, if you just want to be a fly on the wall, it's very easy to fill in that (extra) time."
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