TV Series · 2014 · TV Series · 2010s
The Affair
Two parallel scores from 246 z-qualifying reviewers and 258 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Z-normalized corrects for reviewer bias (every reviewer re-centered onto their personal scale). Raw average uses simple mean across the broader pool including stddev=0 reviewers.
Where this title sits
Z-normalized percentile · 3,236 peers in TV Series · 2010s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.163 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.61 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.69 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.058 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 246 / 258 |
Summary
A married Long Island schoolteacher and novelist meets a young waitress while vacationing in Montauk, and the two embark on an affair that upends both of their marriages and families. The series unfolds through shifting, often contradictory points of view, framed by a police investigation into a death connected to the people in their orbit.
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The math, in this order
246 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.163. DB2 raw mean = 6.69.
90% CI-floor = +0.058. Thin samples penalized.
Global 63.9 / cohort 53.5. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
