TV Series · 2013 · TV Series · 2010s
Bates Motel
Scored from 342 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
A contemporary prequel to Psycho, the series follows teenage Norman Bates and his mother Norma after they purchase a motel in the coastal town of White Pine Bay, Oregon, hoping for a fresh start. As Norman struggles with blackouts and a fracturing psyche, the unusually close mother-son bond deepens against a backdrop of small-town crime and family secrets.
Released in 2013, Bates Motel is a drama, horror and mystery television series.
342 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 359 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 180 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Bates Motel 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 342.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
