Netflix Plans "New Stanford Prison Experiment"
The six-episode unscripted series will place 30 participants in a real prison to test whether power changes behavior.
- Netflix will debut "The New Stanford Prison Experiment" on October 21, an unscripted series placing 30 participants inside a real prison randomly assigned as guards or prisoners.
- Led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University, the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment examined authority's psychological effects but ended after six days when guards began abusing prisoners.
- Alfred Street Industries produces the six-episode season featuring 45-minute installments, with executive producers Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe, Jeff Grogan, and Mike Odair.
- Executive producer Jane Lipsitz stated the series explores whether "power corrupts" today, calling the project "one of the most intense, exhilarating — and definitely nail-biting — experiences we've ever had."
- Critics note the original Stanford Prison Experiment is widely considered debunked and heavily challenged on scientific and ethical grounds, yet Netflix proceeds with the revival despite documented prisoner abuse in the 1971 study.
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Coming to Netflix: the Stanford Prison Experiment
Netflix is reliving one of psychology's most controversial studies as reality TV, and one of the men who lived through the original says that's a problem. The streamer's six-part series, The New Stanford Prison Experiment, arrive Oct. 21 and puts 30 volunteers into a real prison setting, split into guards...
NETFLIX announces a reality series based on the controversial 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.
Netflix Plans "New Stanford Prison Experiment"
Netflix has reportedly commissioned “The New Stanford Prison Experiment,” a new unscripted reality series based on the notorious experiment. The first season will consist of six 45-minute episodes and is set to debut on the service on October 21st. Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe, Jeff Grogan, and Mike Odair executive produce the […]
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