TV Series · 2021 · TV Series · 2020s
Resident Alien
Scored from 809 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
An alien crashes on Earth and assumes the identity of a human doctor in a small Colorado town while attempting to complete his extraterrestrial mission. As he navigates small-town life and human relationships, the alien must keep his true nature secret while learning about humanity and developing unexpected connections.
Chris Sheridan created Resident Alien, a science fiction, comedy and drama television series from 2021. A typical episode runs 42 minutes. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy. It was made in the United States. It stars Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko and Corey Reynolds. It is rated TV-14.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 306 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 809 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 865 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Resident Alien lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2020s (3,070 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 809.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
