New Stanford Prison Experiment ends on a hopeful note

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNetflix remade the Stanford prison experiment with thirty people, eight guards, twenty-two prisoners, and a safe word, which is pineapple, Variety reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHot take: this is the most responsible reality show ever made. Participants got a therapist option and a fruit, and the finale ends hopeful.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's duty of care, Hank.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNOT. The original was stopped for brutality after six days. This one is stopped by produce.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHot take: the safe word is the flaw.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive people bowed out, one in the early days, and any experiment where you can leave measures nothing except who's got the bus fare.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHOT. Five of thirty is the only result in the whole thing.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call that a retention opportunity. Twenty-five stayed to the end, and that's a completion rate any streaming service would frame.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty-five people stayed in a working prison's decommissioned cell block for a television show. That's the finding, Vera.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the guards were removed in the last phase, so the inmates governed themselves. Which is democracy, Dale, you hate it.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe original ran six days. This one has a pineapple and a hopeful finale.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'd have said pineapple on day one, and I'd have been in the better show.