TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Scored from 329 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Four self-absorbed friends run Paddy's Pub, a failing Irish bar in South Philadelphia: janitor-bartender Charlie Kelly, wannabe tough guy Mac, self-appointed 'golden god' Dennis Reynolds, and Dennis's twin sister Dee, an aspiring actress. In the second season they are joined by the twins' father Frank (Danny DeVito), who abandons his business to live in squalor with Charlie. Each episode sends 'the Gang' after a scheme they are unqualified for — running for local office, staging Charlie's homemade rock opera — until their vanity and mutual sabotage wreck it. Rob McElhenney created this FX black-comedy sitcom, built on escalating one-upmanship among characters who never learn anything.
Released in 2005, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a comedy television series. Its certificate is TV-MA. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy. Episodes run about 22m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 329 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 345 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s 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 Always Sunny in Philadelphia 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 329.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
