TV Series · 2004 · TV Series · 2000s
Desperate Housewives
Scored from 151 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Set on the seemingly idyllic Wisteria Lane, this comedy-drama follows a group of suburban housewives whose lives are narrated by a friend who has just died by suicide. As they juggle marriages, motherhood, careers, and friendships, each woman hides personal struggles and dark secrets behind manicured lawns and polite smiles, while mysteries among their neighbors gradually come to light.
Released in 2004, Desperate Housewives is a comedy, drama and mystery television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 151 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 163 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 51 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 Desperate Housewives 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 151.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
