TV Series · 2008 · TV Series · 2000s
Fringe
Scored from 426 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
FBI agent Olivia Dunham is recruited into a secretive federal task force to investigate unexplained phenomena involving fringe science and parallel universes. Working with eccentric scientist Walter Bishop and his son Peter, she uncovers a vast conspiracy of dangerous experimental technology.
Fringe is a 2008 science fiction, mystery and thriller television series. It stars Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and John Noble. It is rated TV-14. A typical episode runs 42 minutes. It was created by J.J. Abrams and Alex Kurtzman. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. 426 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 447 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 107 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 Fringe 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 426.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
