TV Series · 2019 · TV Series · 2010s
Departure
Scored from 193 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
After a passenger jet vanishes over the Atlantic, transportation safety investigator Kendra Malley is pulled out of semi-retirement by her former mentor to lead the inquiry. As she and her team sift through wreckage, survivor accounts, and conflicting evidence, the search for what brought the plane down uncovers possibilities ranging from mechanical failure to deliberate sabotage.
Released in 2019, Departure is a drama, mystery and thriller television series.
The calibrated figure is built from 193 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 205 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 23 of whom clear the calibration test. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Departure 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 193.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
