TV Series · 2017 · TV Series · 2010s
Happy!
Scored from 255 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) is a disgraced former New York detective turned alcoholic hitman, and after a job goes badly wrong he starts seeing Happy, a small blue winged cartoon horse voiced by Patton Oswalt and visible to no one else. Happy says he is the imaginary friend of Hailey, a girl abducted by a man in a Santa Claus suit, and that Hailey is Nick's daughter. The search drags Nick back through mob families, corrupt cops and the people he burned during his police career. Adapted from the comic by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson, the Syfy series ran two seasons and pairs live action with an animated sidekick.
Happy! is a 2017 action, comedy and crime television series. Its certificate is TV-MA. Episodes run about 43m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 255 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 274 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 65 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 Happy! 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 255.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
