TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
Bones
Scored from 222 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A procedural crime drama following Dr. Temperance Brennan, a brilliant forensic anthropologist, who partners with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth to solve murder cases involving victims whose remains are too decomposed or damaged for standard identification. Working from the Jeffersonian Institute with her team of quirky specialists, Brennan's scientific rationalism clashes with Booth's instinct-driven approach as their professional partnership evolves over the years.
Bones (2005) is a television series IMDb files under the crime, drama and mystery genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,359 2000s television series, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 57 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 222 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 236 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 Bones 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 · 2000s (1,360 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 222.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
