TV Mini Series · 2014 · TV Mini Series · 2010s
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Scored from 129 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s (702 peers).
Summary
Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, this 13-part documentary series follows up Carl Sagan's 1980 Cosmos by surveying the history of scientific discovery and humanity's place in the universe. Using the Ship of the Imagination and animated historical vignettes, it explores topics from the cosmic calendar and evolution to the lives of pioneering scientists and the scale of space and time.
Released in 2014, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a documentary and family miniseries.
701 other miniseries from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 129 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 144 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 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey 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 Mini Series · 2010s (702 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 129.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s
