TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
Avenue 5
Scored from 511 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
A luxury space cruise ship called Avenue 5 suffers a critical malfunction while traveling in deep space with thousands of wealthy passengers aboard. The captain and crew must navigate the crisis while managing the stranded passengers' expectations and maintaining order aboard the vessel.
Avenue 5 is a 2020 comedy, science fiction and drama television series starring Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad and Nikki Amuka-Bird. Armando Iannucci created it. Episodes run about 30m. Its certificate is TV-MA. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom and the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 511 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 530 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,069 other television series from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 102 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 Avenue 5 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 511.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
