TV Series · 2017 · TV Series · 2010s
American Gods
Scored from 420 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Ex-convict Shadow Moon is hired as bodyguard by the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday, who is secretly recruiting the Old Gods of myth and legend for a brewing war against the New Gods of technology, media, and globalization. As Shadow travels across America, he encounters strange deities and uncovers truths about belief, identity, and his own past.
Released in 2017, American Gods is a drama, fantasy and mystery television series.
3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 420 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 475 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 148 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 American Gods 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 420.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
