The infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment was such a rousing success that Netflix decided to recreate it for a new reality series.

Lol, just kidding. The Stanford Prison Experiment, in which Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo selected 24 male students to participate as either inmates or guards so he could evaluate how the power dynamics affected the group individually and collectively went so badly that it had to be terminated early after the prison guard group mistreated the prisoner group members.

In the original experiment, the participants in the inmate group were subject to actual arrests, booking and had mug shots taken before being confined to mock prison cells. Zimbardo himself acted as prison superintendent during the experiment, and the “guards” were instructed to create a realistic prison environment without inflicting physical harm on the “inmates.” Psychological harm, though, was still an option. On the second day, some of the prisoners rose up against the guards, who came down hard on the perpetrators. The first prisoner breakdown happened in 36 hours. The entire experiment, originally designed to last two full weeks, was discontinued on day six.

But Netflix, which also this year created a vastly different, yet still questionable reality show based on the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (which, coincidentally, was also a product of the year 1971) has apparently decided that things will be different this time around.

For The New Stanford Prison Experiment, Netflix has assembled 30 participants, both men and women, from diverse backgrounds. Though the original experiment was conducted in the basement of a building on campus, the rebooted version will incarcerate their subjects inside an actual prison. In the trailer we see more than half of the subjects wearing yellow coveralls labeled “INMATE,” lining up for an unappetizing cafeteria tray laden with prison grub, and being confined to their cells after a lockdown.

The trailer gives snippets of the many ways this experiment could go horribly wrong…er, wind up being as well-regarded as the first version of it was.

“Worst case scenario? My inner monster is stronger than I thought it was,” said one participant assigned to be an inmate.

“It is like teleporting into a completely different world,” one voiceover informs us in the trailer, over the sounds of unearthly screams.

“We are locking you guys down for 23 hours,” says a guard. “Let ’em rot in there,” declares another. Uh oh.

But don’t count the inmate group out just yet. If the trailer is any indication, the prisoners won’t be tolerating abuse without some pushback. “At any given time, we could all rise up,” says one yellow jumpsuited detainee. “There’s 20 of us…why are we listening to them?” asks another. Perhaps they read up on the original experiment and got ideas.

“Does power corrupt?” asks another disembodied voice, leading into a scene where the guards are forcing the inmates to lie on the floor, to better yell at them, it appears. Surely the answer to that question has been demonstrated once or twice (or an infinite number of times) throughout human history.

According to the Netflix’s Tudum press site, the production team behind The New Stanford Prison Experiment has done their due diligence when designing the parameters of their study. “The team behind the series approached rebuilding one of the most ethically fraught experiments in behavioral science and updating it with new safeguards, a mixed-gender cast, and expert oversight the original lacked.”

“When the show was first announced, there was a lot of outrage that anyone would even attempt the Stanford Prison Experiment again — and given what happened with the original, I completely understand that reaction,” executive producer Jane Lipsitz told the Netflix press flak. She also said that her team spent over a year developing the series. “If we were simply recreating the original experiment, that would be unconscionable. But this is a different time, with different participants, different safeguards and, ultimately, a very different journey.”

See? Nothing to worry about.

And there’s no way of knowing from the trailer if this iteration of the experiment rivals the damage done by the first. Oh, wait, except for the unidentified participant who informs us, “I think we went too far. I think we made a mistake.”

We can hope that’s just a dramatic editing choice and that everyone involved came out of the experience with minimal psychological trauma. And as another of the unfortunate prisoners reminds us during the trailer, “this isn’t real life!”

No, it’s just Netflix, which allegedly is not in the business of scarring people for life, whether in their mock prison reality show or in their Willy Wonka-themed Golden Ticket reality show.

If your curiosity has gotten the better of you, know that The New Stanford Prison Experiment will be offering all six of its episodes on Netflix beginning October 21st.