About this season
An American television news magazine and hidden camera show. Actors act out scenes of conflict or illegal activity in public settings while hidden cameras videotape the scene, and the focus is on whether or not bystanders intervene, and how. Variations are also usually included, such as changing the genders, the races or the clothing of the actors performing the scene, to see if bystanders react differently. Quiñones appears at the end to interview the bystanders about their reactions. As the experiment goes on, psychology professors, teachers, or club members watch and discuss the video with Quiñones, explaining and making inferences on the bystanders' reactions.
Episodes (10)
1. Episode 1
Aired 7 July 2020
People react in Mississippi and New York to a man publicly displaying the Confederate flag; a coffee shop manager berates a cashier who offers free food to a homeless man; a man plots revenge against his ex; a mother becomes embarrassed by her son.
2. Episode 2
Aired 14 September 2020
A coach discourages a young baseball player from coming out as gay; a waitress is rude to a veteran with a traumatic brain injury; a customer in a clothing store starts rearranging items; a young man confronts his father about his gambling.
3. Episode #15.3
Aired 21 July 2020 • 60 min
4. Episode #15.4
Aired 28 July 2020 • 60 min
Thought-provoking scenarios on racial bias, aging out of the foster care system, and sobriety.
5. What Would You Do? College Debt, Drunk Babysitter, Stay-at-Home Dad Shaming, Poor Teacher, Crying in Public
Aired 4 August 2020 • 60 min
6. Episode 6
Aired 11 August 2020
A bar manager tells an applicant she's too old for the job; two women in a gym bully another woman for her body's appearance in leggings; a customer in a sporting goods store harasses a gay couple; a mother wants her children to eat vegetables.
7. Episode 7
Aired 18 August 2020
A teenager pleads with his mother to get a vaccine; a mother steals money from a register when the cashier steps away; a pageant coach berates her contestant; a father criticizes his son for being afraid to hold a baby alligator.
8. Episode 8
Aired 25 August 2020
Two Latino men are questioned about their immigration status; teen girls verbally bully a classmate at a park; a woman upsets her child by repeatedly saying negative things about the child's father; a barbershop customer falls asleep in the chair.
9. Determined Daughter, Tiny Ring, Bisexuality, Grammin' Grannies
9.0Aired 8 September 2020 • 60 min
10. Episdoe 10
Aired 8 September 2020
A boy at an ice cream shop needs help fending off bullies; a focus group reviews a product that does not work; a salesman asks focus group participants to pretend to be a marriage coach for a meeting with his wife.