TV Series · 2009 · TV Series · 2000s
Community
Scored from 419 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 smug, disbarred lawyer enrolls at Greendale Community College and forms a Spanish study group to hit on a classmate, only to find himself bonded to a misfit ensemble of students from wildly different walks of life. What starts as a self-serving scheme evolves into an absurd, pop-culture-saturated sitcom about friendship, identity, and the strange family people build in school.
Released in 2009, Community is a comedy television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,359 2000s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 419 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 455 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 309 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 Community 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 419.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
