TV Series · 2021 · TV Series · 2020s
American Rust
Scored from 140 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
Set in a struggling Pennsylvania Rust Belt town, the series follows Del Harris, the troubled chief of police, who must decide how far he will go to protect the son of the woman he loves after the young man is implicated in a murder. The show explores small-town decay, family loyalty, and moral compromise against a backdrop of economic decline.
Released in 2021, American Rust is a crime and drama television series.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 140 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 146 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 35 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 Rust 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 140.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
