Is Bluey actually good?

Bluey sits in the 98.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked seriess, meaning it scores above 98.3% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Bluey compare to similar seriess?

Within TV Series · 2010s, Bluey lands in the 97.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a series for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Bluey's score based on?

177 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Bluey — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Bluey score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2018

global pct

98.3

TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s

Bluey

Name: Bluey
Genre: Animation, Family
Released: 2018
Duration: 7 min

Scored from 177 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).

98.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

97.7%

In-cohort percentile

TV Series · 2010s · 3,236 titles

99.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

177 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

An Australian animated series created by Joe Brumm for ABC Kids, centred on a six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy who lives in Brisbane with her four-year-old sister Bingo and their parents, Bandit, an archaeologist, and Chilli, who works part-time in airport security. Each seven-minute episode is built around a game the children invent — Keepy Uppy, Magic Xylophone, Shadowlands — and around the rules, negotiations and rule-breaking that follow once Bandit or Chilli is drafted into playing. The comedy comes from how closely the improvised play copies adult routines: taxis, hotels, doctors' waiting rooms, grocery shopping. There is no continuing storyline, and the conflicts stay domestic — a lost toy, an unfair call, a parent who wants a nap.

Released in 2018, Bluey is an animation and family television series. Its country of origin is listed as Australia. Its certificate is TV-Y. Episodes run about 7m.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 71 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 177 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 209 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

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 Bluey 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 177.