TV Series · 2003 · TV Series · 2000s
Arrested Development
Scored from 313 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Narrated by Ron Howard, this single-camera Fox comedy follows Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), the one arguably responsible member of a wealthy Orange County family that collapses when patriarch George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) is arrested by the SEC for fraud at the Bluth Company. With the assets frozen and the family camped in a model home, Michael abandons his plan to move away and takes over the business, corralling his imperious mother Lucille, his delusional magician brother Gob, his self-righteous sister Lindsay, her never-nude analyst husband Tobias and his infantilised brother Buster. His actual priority is his teenage son George Michael, whose crush on cousin Maeby is one of many things Michael fails to notice. The show runs on dense running gags, callbacks and Howard's dryly contradicting narration.
Released in 2003, Arrested Development is a comedy television series. It was made in the United States. It is rated TV-14. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy. A typical episode runs 22 minutes.
313 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 337 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,359 2000s television series, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 148 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 Arrested Development 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 · 2000s (1,360 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 313.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
