TV Series · 2007 · TV Series · 2000s
Californication
Scored from 176 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Hank Moody, a once-celebrated novelist suffering from writer's block, navigates life in Los Angeles while juggling his complicated love for his ex-partner Karen, his devotion to their daughter Becca, and a steady stream of self-destructive choices involving sex, alcohol, and bad decisions. His best friend and agent Charlie Runkle tries to keep Hank's career afloat as Hank stumbles through scandals, relationships, and attempts at redemption.
Californication is a 2007 comedy and drama television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 43 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 176 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 187 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 Californication 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 176.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
