TV Series · 2014 · TV Series · 2010s
Detectorists
Scored from 158 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Mackenzie Crook wrote, directed and stars in this BBC Four comedy as Andy, an amateur archaeologist drifting between temp jobs in the fictional Essex town of Danebury, who spends his weekends sweeping farmland with a metal detector beside his friend Lance (Toby Jones), who works at a fruit-and-veg packing plant. Both belong to the Danebury Metal Detecting Club, a tiny society of hobbyists nursing a long feud with a slicker rival outfit fronted by two men they call only Simon and Garfunkel. What they are hunting is Saxon gold under a farmer's field; what they turn up is ring-pulls and buttons. Around that sit Andy's on-off life with Becky and Lance's inability to let go of his ex-wife.
Detectorists is a 2014 comedy television series. Episodes run about 30m. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 19 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 158 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 168 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them.
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 Detectorists 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 158.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
