TV Series · 2014 · TV Series · 2010s
Inside No. 9
Scored from 81 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith write and star in this BBC Two anthology, in which each half-hour episode is a standalone story with a new cast, setting and register, tied to the rest only by an address or object numbered nine and a small brass hare hidden somewhere in the frame. One instalment is a burglary played out almost entirely without dialogue, another tells its story backwards, another was broadcast live and appeared to fall apart on air. Confined mostly to single locations and small casts, the episodes slide between farce, horror and tragedy and usually turn on a late reversal. It ran for nine series and 55 episodes between 2014 and 2024.
Released in 2014, Inside No. 9 is a comedy, crime and drama television series. A typical episode runs 28 minutes. It is rated TV-MA. It was made in the United Kingdom.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 26 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 81 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 85 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus.
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 Inside No. 9 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 81.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
