TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
Bodyguard
Scored from 612 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
A war veteran and principal protection officer is assigned to safeguard a controversial Home Secretary. As professional skepticism and personal trauma collide, he uncovers a dangerous conspiracy involving terrorism and political corruption.
Bodyguard is a 2018 drama, thriller and crime television series starring Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes and Sophie Okonkwo. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is TV-MA. Jed Mercurio created it. Episodes run about 1h.
3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 612 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 644 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 126 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Bodyguard 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 612.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
