Netflix’s New Stanford Prison Experiment Trailer Totally Reimagines Controversial Simulation
Thirty participants are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners in a six-episode series that examines power, hierarchy and control.
- Netflix unveiled the trailer for 'The New Stanford Prison Experiment,' an unscripted series debuting October 21. The show places 30 participants in a real prison facility assigned as guards or prisoners.
- Psychologist Philip Zimbardo led the original 1971 Stanford University study with 24 students randomly assigned roles. Researchers planned a two-week simulation but ended it after six days due to abusive behavior and ethical concerns.
- Produced by Alfred Street Industries, the first season consists of six 45-minute episodes. Executive producers Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe, Jeff Grogan, and Mike Odair oversee the project.
- Footage reveals participants adjusting to the facility as tensions rise, with the trailer teasing a revolt storyline where inmates push back against guards. The show explores the central question: "Does power corrupt?".
- Netflix aims to attract a significant streaming audience with this intense reality competition. Similar experiments historically prompted stricter industry rules regarding treatment of human participants in psychological studies.
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Netflix Recreated the Stanford Prison Experiment. Here's the Trailer
In the 1970s, psychology professor Philip G. Zimbardo from Stanford University led an experiment in which 24 students were randomly selected to be either guards or prisoners in a study designed to examine the psychological effects of authority and powerlessness... Read more...
Series Trailer: "The New Stanford Prison Experiment"
News only broke two weeks ago that Netflix had commissioned “The New Stanford Prison Experiment,” an unscripted reality series based on the notorious experiment. Having already been shot, the streamer has now released the official trailer for the project. The first season will consist of six 45-minute episodes and is set to debut on the […]
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Netflix makes subtext text in New Stanford Prison Experiment trailer
Their psychological toll is Netflix’s reality TV entertainment in The New Stanford Prison Experiment, the streamer’s latest reality competition destined to drive contestants to the brink. Based on the ethically and scientifically dubious social experiment, in which Stanford University psychology professors paid 24 participants $15 to play prison for five days, Netflix’s latest reality show finally marries the bleak social outlook of Squid Game w…
Netflix is remaking the Stanford Prison Experiment as a reality show
In 1971, Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo set up a fake prison in the basement of a building at Stanford. Twenty-four male college students were selected at random to either be guards or prisoners. Zimbardo hired real police officers to "arrest" the students so that the experiment felt more real. — Read the rest
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