Mama Drama

The Mama Drama cast is constantly arguing and name-calling, and this sometimes escalates to physical confrontations: slapping, hair-pulling, hurling drinks into each other's face. Members of the cast proudly affirm that they won't put up with "s--t talking" and will fight with other women who do. There's a general attitude that solving problems with violence is acceptable, even positive.

Mama Drama cast members constantly talk about sex and finding men to have sex with, preferably handsome strangers for one-night stands. The women compete for male attention and are often shown in very revealing outfits, such as bathing suits that wouldn't look out of place at a strip club. Many scenes are set in situations where cast members will be half- or entirely naked, i.e. swimming pools, hot tubs. Nudity is blurred, but there are a lot of scenes in which cast members flash their breasts and genitals at strangers or each other.

Lots of rough language, such as the women referring to each other as "bitches," "whores," or "hookers." Four-letter words such as "f--k" and "s--t" are bleeped, and some cast members' speech is so thick with cursing that they can barely be understood underneath all the bleeping.

Many characters smoke, and seemingly all of them drink, constantly and to excess. Mama Drama cast members drink to get drunk and behave shamefully when inebriated -- falling over, throwing up, getting into arguments and physical confrontations. And all of these drunken antics are portrayed as just good fun.

Parents need to know that Mama Drama is a reality show made by the creative team behind Jersey Shore that offers some of the same reprehensible behavior and lessons. The five featured mother-daughter pairs are loud, boorish, frequently drunk, and generally on the make. Women in their 40s or 50s, as well as their twentysomething daughters, wear extremely revealing outfits and seemingly do nothing but shop for sexy clothes and otherwise get ready for long nights of drinking, brawling, and hitting on good-looking men at parties and clubs. The women gossip viciously behind one another's backs and are apt to exchange harsh words that sometimes turn into physical confrontations. No consequences are shown for these behaviors, save for plenty of talk about hangovers. There's a lot of (blurred) nudity and (bleeped) cursing, as well as crass and ugly behavior from both mothers and daughters.