Is Beckham actually good?

Beckham sits in the 94.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked seriess, meaning it scores above 94.7% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Beckham compare to similar seriess?

Within TV Mini Series · 2020s, Beckham lands in the 92.8% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a series for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Beckham's score based on?

96 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Beckham — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Beckham score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2023

global pct

94.7

TV Mini Series · 2023 · TV Mini Series · 2020s

Beckham

Name: Beckham
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Sport
Released: 2023
Duration: 1 h 10 min

Scored from 96 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).

94.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.8%

In-cohort percentile

TV Mini Series · 2020s · 1,094 titles

98.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

96 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

Fisher Stevens's four-part Netflix documentary follows David Beckham from an East London childhood of endless free-kick practice under his United-obsessed father to Manchester United's Class of '92 and the 1999 treble. Its pivot is the 1998 World Cup, where his red card against Argentina made him the scapegoat for England's exit and the target of years of abuse from fans and the press. Beckham and Victoria Beckham sit for long interviews, joined by Alex Ferguson, Gary Neville and Roy Keane, covering the marriage, the tabloid siege, the rupture with Ferguson that ended his United career, and the later moves to Real Madrid and LA Galaxy.

Beckham (2023) is a miniseries IMDb files under the biography, documentary and sport genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Episodes run about 1h 10m. Its certificate is TV-MA.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 26 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 96 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 102 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 1,093 other miniseries from the 2020s 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 Beckham 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 96.