TV Mini Series · 2021 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
It's a Sin
Scored from 270 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
In 1981 a group of eighteen-year-olds converge on London and end up sharing a flat they nickname the Pink Palace: aspiring actor Ritchie Tozer, who has left the Isle of Wight and his parents' expectations behind, shy Welsh tailor's apprentice Colin Morris-Jones, exuberant Roscoe Babatunde, who walks out on his devoutly religious family, Ash Mukherjee, and their friend Jill Baxter. Across the decade that follows, rumours of a disease affecting gay men harden into the AIDS crisis, and the friends meet it with denial, activism and caregiving in very different measures. Russell T Davies wrote this five-part Channel 4 drama, which takes its title from the Pet Shop Boys song.
Released in 2021, It's a Sin is a drama miniseries. A typical episode runs 45 minutes. It was made in the United Kingdom. It is rated TV-MA.
270 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 300 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 1,093 other miniseries from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 It's a Sin 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 Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 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 270.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
