TV Mini Series · 2023 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
Arnold
Scored from 76 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
A three-part Netflix documentary series in which Arnold Schwarzenegger tells his own story on camera, one episode each for the bodybuilder, the film star and the politician. It runs from his childhood in Thal, Austria, under a strict police-officer father, through the Mr. Olympia years and Pumping Iron, the studio resistance to his accent and physique, and the Conan and Terminator films that made him a box-office draw, to his terms as governor of California. Lesley Chilcott directs, mixing archive footage and home movies with new interviews including Sylvester Stallone, Danny DeVito and James Cameron. The series also takes up the scandals that ended his marriage.
Arnold (2023) is a miniseries IMDb files under the biography and documentary genres. It was made in the United States.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,093 2020s miniseries, not against the whole corpus. Only 76 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 80 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 22 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Arnold 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 Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 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 76.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
