TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
Black Lightning
Scored from 271 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Jefferson Pierce, a high school principal in Freeland, is a retired vigilante with electrical powers who hung up his Black Lightning persona years ago to protect his family. When a local gang called The 100 escalates its grip on the community and threatens his daughters, he is pulled back into action, balancing his civilian life with the renewed fight to save his city.
Black Lightning is a 2018 action, drama and science-fiction television series.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. 271 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 289 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 181 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 Lightning 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 271.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
