TV Series · 2024 · TV Series · 2020s
3 Body Problem
Scored from 756 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
Spanning from China's Cultural Revolution to the present day, this science fiction series follows humanity's discovery of and first contact with an alien civilization. Based on Liu Cixin's acclaimed novel trilogy, the narrative explores the complex scientific, philosophical, and geopolitical consequences of this encounter as nations grapple with existential questions about humanity's place in the universe.
3 Body Problem is a 2024 science fiction, drama and mystery television series created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Episodes run about 50m. Benedict Wong, Jovan Adepo and Jonathan Pryce head the billed cast. Its certificate is TV-MA. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 756 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 831 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 331 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 3 Body Problem 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 756.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
