TV Series · 2022 · TV Series · 2020s
Ancient Apocalypse
Scored from 193 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
Journalist Graham Hancock travels to ancient sites around the world, from Indonesia's Gunung Padang to Mexico's Cholula pyramid, arguing that a sophisticated lost civilization existed during the last Ice Age and seeded knowledge to later cultures. The Netflix docuseries presents his fringe theories as a challenge to mainstream archaeology, which has widely disputed his claims.
Ancient Apocalypse is a 2022 documentary and history television series.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 21 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,069 2020s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 193 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 208 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 Ancient Apocalypse 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 193.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
