TV Mini Series · 2022 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
Black Bird
Scored from 341 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
Jimmy Keene, a charming Chicago dealer and former high-school football star, is sentenced to ten years without parole on drug and weapons charges. Federal agents offer him a way out: transfer voluntarily to a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane, befriend inmate Larry Hall — a soft-spoken Civil War re-enactor convicted of one abduction and suspected of many more — and get him to say where the bodies are before an appeal sets him free. Inside, Jimmy must sustain the lie in a place where exposure is fatal, while the detective who first built the case works it from outside. Dennis Lehane's six-part Apple TV+ limited series adapts James Keene's memoir In with the Devil.
Black Bird is a 2022 biography, crime and drama miniseries. It is rated TV-MA. A typical episode runs 50 minutes. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s miniseries — 1,094 of them. 341 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 357 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 126 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Black Bird 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 341.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
