TV Series · 2006 · TV Series · 2000s
Dexter
Scored from 872 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Dexter Morgan is a forensic blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who leads a secret double life as a serial killer. Following a moral code taught by his adoptive father, Dexter targets other killers who slip through the justice system. The series explores his struggle to maintain his carefully constructed facade while satisfying his darker urges.
Dexter is a 2006 crime, drama and thriller television series created by James Manos Jr.. Its certificate is TV-MA. Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter and David Zayas head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Episodes run about 50m.
The calibrated figure is built from 872 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 956 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 680 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 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 Dexter 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 872.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
