TV Series · 2012 · TV Series · 2010s
Arrow
Scored from 604 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Oliver Queen, a billionaire turned vigilante archer, returns to his city after being stranded on a mysterious island. He assumes the secret identity of the Arrow and works to save his city from powerful, corrupt individuals using a list of names—all while maintaining his public persona as a wealthy businessman.
Arrow is a 2012 action, adventure and drama television series created by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim. Episodes run about 42m. Its certificate is TV-14. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy and David Ramsey head the billed cast.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 604 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 673 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 849 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 Arrow 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 604.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
