TV Series · 2004 · TV Series · 2000s
Hustle
Scored from 47 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 crew of London con artists — Mickey 'Bricks' Stone, who designs the jobs; Albert Stroller, the veteran roper who finds the marks; Ash Morgan, the fixer who builds the fake offices and props; Stacie Monroe, who works the mark up close; and Danny Blue, a cocky newcomer angling for Mickey's role — run elaborate long cons on the greedy and the crooked, on the principle that you cannot cheat an honest man. Each episode of the BBC caper series follows a single sting from mark to payoff, using flashbacks, freeze-frames and asides to camera that conceal how the trick is actually being worked. Tony Jordan created the series, which ran for eight series between 2004 and 2012.
Hustle is a 2004 crime, drama and mystery television series. It was made in the United Kingdom. A typical episode runs 60 minutes.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,359 2000s television series, not against the whole corpus. Only 47 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 55 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 12 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 Hustle 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 47.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
