TV Mini Series · 2020 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
Des
Scored from 100 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
A dramatization of serial killer Dennis Nilsen's crimes in Scotland during the late 1970s and 1980s, following his arrest and investigation by detectives.
Released in 2020, Des is a biography, crime and drama miniseries. Its certificate is 15. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 100 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 104 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,093 2020s miniseries, not against the whole corpus.
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 Des 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 · 2020s (1,094 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 100.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
