TV Series · 2011 · TV Series · 2010s
Black Mirror
Scored from 835 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Black Mirror is a British science fiction anthology series exploring the dark consequences of technological advancement on society and human relationships. Each episode presents a standalone story with different characters and settings, examining themes such as surveillance, artificial intelligence, social media, virtual reality, and technology's unintended societal impacts.
Black Mirror is a 2011 science fiction, drama and thriller television series. It was made in the United Kingdom. A typical episode runs 50 minutes. It is rated TV-MA. It stars Domhnall Gleeson, Rory Kinnear and Jon Hamm. It was created by Charlie Brooker.
835 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 895 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 700 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 Mirror 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 835.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
