... would this production have survived through a second season, odds are against it... it's just more of same again and again... not that it is extremely poorly done, really the opposite... it's just that all these "Jersey" characters wear you down (especially-when-streamed)... enough to cancel the series after just two episodes have been aired, we'll that's an untold story there

"Despite stating that it "sounds from a bare-bones description as if it were a cloddish comedy that deserves immediate cancellation," Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times added that "if the show's writers can deepen the characters, Made in Jersey just might continue to be worth watching.""

... seeing it had been cancelled so quickly, either powers that be had seen all the episodes, or least more than just two... or someone-powerful had a vendetta-score to-serve.