Mammas pick their sons' brides on Italy reality TV.
Often seen as mommy's boys, Italian men are now letting their mothers choose their future wives live on television.
Italy's state TV aired the first episode（1） of a new reality show this week in which the mothers of five single men have to pick out prospective（2） brides from a selection of candidates.
Critics said Perfect Bride was both insulting（3） to women and showed Italian TV already packed with other reality formats1 such as Big Brother and Celebrity2 Island falling to new depths of banality（4）.
In the first episode, the jury of mothers called only by their first names such as Mamma Rosa and Mamma Ambra quizzed 18 hopefuls about their suitability（5） as wives.
From next week the mothers will have to live in a Big Brother-style house with their potential daughters-in-law, seeing first hand how they deal with household chores（6）. Viewers will be encouraged to vote off the candidates they dislike.
Mamma Teresa said she was looking for a simple, intelligent, classy girl for her son Claudio. I would like someone who's not too ostentatious（7） and who knows how to take care of the family, she said on the program's Web site.
Claudio, viewers learn, is a really capable person, very affectionate（8） with his family, but suffers from one defect common to many Italian bachelors: He has too many girlfriends! I want to find him his ultimate woman.
In a country where it is normal for unmarried men to live with their parents into their 30s and mamma mia! （my mommy） is a common exclamation（9）, the Italian mother figure is revered（10） by society but often feared by girlfriends and wives.
TV critics said the program exploited the stereotype（11） of the overbearing（12） mamma.
It's the most grandiose（13）, caricatural（14）, corrosive（15） demolition3 of the image of the Italian mamma, said Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera.
La Repubblica daily said Prefect Bride had an out-dated vision of women's role in society. State TV is going too far in its failure to limit the rubbish, the rudeness, the lying, the lack of manners and the wiping out of social changes which happened 50 years ago, it said.
意大利男性常被看作是母亲的宝贝，现在还让母亲为他们在电视上现场选老婆了。
本周，意大利国家用电器台播出第一集选媳妇真人秀。五个单身男性的母亲需要从一群候选人中挑出将来儿媳妇。
评论说《完美新娘》是对女性和意大利电视台的侮辱。它与其他一些正播出的真人秀节目如《老大哥》和《名人岛》的形式如出一辙，只不过愈加庸俗了。
在第一集中，这类母亲评委们被简称为罗萨母亲、安姆布拉母亲等，考验18位候选者适不适合作老婆。
下周开始，母亲们将与儿媳妇们一块住在一套《老大哥》样式的房屋里，亲眼看媳妇们是怎么样处置家务琐事。观众们则可以通过短信投票让不喜欢的媳妇下台。
特里萨母亲在节目的网站上说她想为儿子Claudio找一个简单、聪明、高雅的女生：我期望她不要特招摇，了解怎么样照顾家庭。
Claudio在观众眼中是个很有才干的人，热爱家庭，但和不少意大利单身汉拥有相同的问题：他的女友太多了！我想帮他找到最后归宿。
在乎大利，三十来岁的未婚男性同爸爸妈妈住在一块是常见现象，我的母亲呀也是他们常见的感叹词。因此母亲们在社会中备受尊重，但女友和老婆们都非常惧怕她们
电视评论说此节目借助了专横母亲们的一贯做派。
意大利主要日报Corriere della Sera说：这是对意大利妈妈形象最浮夸、讽刺性的诋毁。
La Repubblica日报说《完美新娘》对女人社会角色的理解太过时了。它说：国家用电器台太失败了，居然没能遏制住这种垃圾、粗俗、谎话、无礼，并对50年来发生的变化视而不见。
