TV Series · 2011 · TV Series · 2010s
Falling Skies
Scored from 287 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Six months after an alien invasion devastates Earth, a former Boston University history professor turned resistance fighter helps lead a ragtag militia of civilians and soldiers known as the 2nd Massachusetts. As they battle to survive against the occupying Skitters and their mech enforcers, he also searches for his middle son, who was harnessed and enslaved by the invaders along with other children.
Falling Skies is a 2011 action, adventure and drama television series.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. 287 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 309 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 59 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Falling Skies 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 287.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
