TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
Castle Rock
Scored from 454 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 mysterious, unnamed prisoner is brought to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, igniting a chain of supernatural and disturbing events. As the community grapples with his inexplicable origins and strange presence, dark secrets buried within the town begin to surface.
Sam Catlin and Dustin Thomason created Castle Rock, a horror, thriller and drama television series from 2018. It stars Bill Skarsgård, Scott Glenn and Melanie Lynskey. It is rated TV-MA. A typical episode runs 55 minutes. It was made in the United States.
454 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 477 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 128 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them.
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 Castle Rock 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 454.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
