MTV Floribama Shore looks like a cheaply made placeholder stand-in for the return of Jersey Shore

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The Jersey Shore spinoff looks like it was made with no budget and filmed with an iPhone 4, says Andy Dehnart. “It’s nothing compared to MTV’s usual visual quality, like in this summer’s cinematic Siesta Key or Catfish‘s what-fourth-wall aesthetic,” he says. “Here, the lighting, artificial and natural, washes out the cast, and everything is either too bright or too dark. Cameras jostle around and zoom in and out like the camera operator handed it to their kid to play with. Dialogue is inaudible and subtitled.”

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