TV Series · 2017 · TV Series · 2010s
Big Little Lies
Scored from 481 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Three women in a coastal California town navigate complex relationships and hidden secrets while their children attend an exclusive school. Their intersecting lives become increasingly entangled as they confront personal crises, marital troubles, and long-buried truths that threaten to unravel their carefully constructed lives.
David E. Kelley created Big Little Lies, a drama, mystery and thriller television series from 2017. It was made in the United States. It stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley. A typical episode runs 50 minutes. It is rated TV-MA.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 171 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 481 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 503 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus.
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 Big Little Lies 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 481.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
