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The Stranger (2020) poster
2020
global pct
46.6

TV Mini Series · 2020 · TV Mini Series · 2020s

The Stranger

Two parallel scores from 556 z-qualifying reviewers and 577 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).

46.6%
Z · Global
38.0%
Z · Cohort
TV Mini Series · 2020s
28.1%
Raw · Global
26.7%
Raw · Cohort
TV Mini Series · 2020s
Two scores · one item
↑ critic-elevated · 19-pt gap
Z-normalized · global
46.6
Z-normalized · cohortTV Mini Series · 2020s
38.0
Raw average · global
28.1
Raw average · cohortTV Mini Series · 2020s
26.7

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 19-point gap is the rating-inflation signature for this title — discriminating reviewers liked it more than the casual crowd.

Where this title sits

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Z-normalized percentile · 1,094 peers in TV Mini Series · 2020s

Mean reviewer z-score-0.039
DB1 raw-mean rating5.76 /10
DB2 raw-mean rating5.81 /10
90% CI-floor (z)-0.108
Reviewers (DB1 / DB2)556 / 577

Summary

A suburban father's life unravels when a mysterious stranger approaches him with a devastating secret about his wife. As he investigates the claim, a chain of interconnected secrets begins to surface across his community, drawing him and several neighbors into a dangerous web of lies, blackmail, and a missing-persons mystery. Based on the Harlan Coben novel, the series follows multiple townspeople whose hidden pasts collide.

Pipeline applied to this title

The math, in this order

01
Z-score per reviewer

556 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.

02
Aggregate

Mean z = -0.039. DB2 raw mean = 5.81.

03
CI-floor

90% CI-floor = -0.108. Thin samples penalized.

04
ECDF percentile

Global 46.6 / cohort 38. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.

Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s

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