TV Series · 2023 · TV Series · 2020s
Beef
Scored from 488 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
Two strangers—a struggling entrepreneur and a woman facing personal turmoil—collide in a tense road rage incident that escalates into an obsessive cycle of retaliation and chaos. What begins as a momentary confrontation spirals into a dangerous game of one-upmanship with devastating consequences.
Beef (2023) is a television series IMDb files under the drama, comedy and thriller genres. It stars Steven Yeun, Ali Wong and Joseph Lee. A typical episode runs 47 minutes. It was made in the United States. It was created by Lee Sung Jin. It is rated TV-MA.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 326 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 488 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 521 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them.
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 Beef 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 488.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
