TV Series · 2004 · TV Series · 2000s
House
Scored from 423 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A brilliant but misanthropic diagnostician at a teaching hospital leads a team of specialists in solving rare and complex medical cases that baffle other physicians. Using unorthodox methods and keen observational skills, Dr. Gregory House investigates mysterious illnesses to uncover hidden diagnoses and unexpected truths.
House is a 2004 medical drama and mystery television series starring Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard and Omar Epps. Episodes run about 42m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-14. David Shore created it.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 148 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 423 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 466 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 House 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 423.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
