Inside ‘The New Stanford Prison Experiment,’ Netflix’s Controversial Reality Series: ‘People Are Going to Have Very Strong Feelings’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Inside ‘The New Stanford Prison Experiment,’ Netflix’s Controversial Reality Series: ‘People Are Going to Have Very Strong Feelings’ (EXCLUSIVE) hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 18, 2026 8:05am PT Inside ‘The New Stanford Prison Experiment,’ Netflix’s Controversial Reality Series: ‘People Are Going to Have Very Strong Feelings’ (EXCLUSIVE) Executive producers Jane Lipsitz and Dan Cutforth take us inside their social experiment reality show premiering Oct. Plus: see a scary clip from the series.

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By Marlow Stern It is one of the most notorious social experiments ever conducted, inspiring numerous films, documentaries and psychological studies. In August of 1971, Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited 24 male college students to participate in a study — funded by the U.S.

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Office of Naval Research — about antisocial behavior and the effects of imprisonment. Selected students passed a psych screening and didn’t have criminal records or medical conditions.

The psychology department was transformed into a mock prison replete with small cells, a corridor doubling as a prison yard and a closet for “solitary confinement, and for two weeks, at a rate of $15 a day ($124.79 in 2026), participants would be dropped into a simulated prison environment and assigned randomly to the role of prison guard or prisoner. They were referred to only by the number on their prison uniform as a form of dehumanization, and guards were encouraged to maintain order by any means necessary.

Related Stories Iranian Auteur Majid Majidi Wins Top Prize at Busan Film Festival With ‘Midday Meal’ By Day 2 of the study, the inmates had staged a rebellion against the guards, using their beds to barricade themselves inside their cells; the guards responded by spraying the prisoners with fire extinguishers, forcing them to strip and sleep on the cold concrete floor. As the situation worsened, with guards exhibiting increasingly cruel forms of punishment and several prisoners suffering mental breakdowns, the Stanford prison experiment was ended on the sixth day.

It’s now considered a colossal ethical failure due to its lack of safeguards for participants, neglecting to properly inform partakers of the parameters, poor oversight and the fact that the man conducting the experiment, Dr. Zimbardo, also served as the “prison” superintendent.

Popular on Variety So, now would be the perfect time for a redo, right? “The New Stanford Prison Experiment” , debuting Oct.

21 on Netflix , is meant to serve as a cultural corrective of sorts — an attempt to see if the Stanford prison experiment could actually yield valuable insights into the human condition if done correctly. It seeks to answer the question, “Does power corrupt?” And raises additional ones about conformity, dominance/submission, voyeurism and the bounds of reality television .

Executive produced by Jane Lipsitz and Dan Cutforth (“Top Chef,” “Project Runway”) via their production company Alfred Street Industries, “ The New Stanford Prison Experiment ” takes thirty participants from diverse backgrounds, transports them to a decommissioned section of a real working prison — the Adult Detention Center in Cherokee County, Georgia — and simulates a prison environment over two weeks, assigning eight as guards (splitting them up between separate day shift and night shift teams) and 22 as prisoners. “We were definitely nervous to take on something that has already failed — that is a nerve-wracking place to be — but we felt the question it was asking was very relevant and important today,” Lipsitz tells Variety .

“Still, there were moments where we thought it would end on

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