TV Mini Series · 2022 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
The Ipcress File
Two parallel scores from 144 z-qualifying reviewers and 147 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 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. The 22-point gap is the rating-inflation signature for this title — discriminating reviewers liked it more than the casual crowd.
Where this title sits
Z-normalized percentile · 1,094 peers in TV Mini Series · 2020s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.155 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.40 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.37 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.018 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 144 / 147 |
Summary
Set in 1960s London and Berlin at the height of the Cold War, this miniseries adapts Len Deighton's novel about Harry Palmer, a working-class British Army sergeant turned reluctant intelligence operative. Recruited out of military prison by a shadowy WO unit, Palmer is tasked with investigating the kidnapping of a prominent British nuclear scientist, a case that draws him into a web of double-dealing, brainwashing, and betrayal.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
144 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.155. DB2 raw mean = 6.37.
90% CI-floor = +0.018. Thin samples penalized.
Global 63.2 / cohort 57.4. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
