MTV Floribama Shore presents a fresher, generational shift in its approach to exhibitionism

The New Yorker

“The vacant vanity of the Jersey Shore crew has evolved here into a more complex egocentrism, tinged with a startling earnestness,” says Troy Patterson. “Acute self-involvement mingles with genuine sensitivity … The straightforward introduction of such adult themes undercuts ready assumptions of what a trashy MTV show is about. Floribama Shore pulls the rug out from under the viewer, and then lays the rug down again for the housemates to wallow upon, in a fashion familiar to the genre.”