TV Series · 2016 · TV Series · 2010s
American Crime Story
Scored from 200 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
An anthology crime drama series, with each season dramatizing a different real-life American criminal case. The first season chronicles the O.J. Simpson murder trial from the perspectives of the prosecution and defense teams, while subsequent seasons cover the assassination of Gianni Versace and the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
American Crime Story (2016) is a television series IMDb files under the biography, crime and drama genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 176 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 200 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 203 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 American Crime Story 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 · 2010s (3,236 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 200.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
