TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
James May: Our Man in...
Scored from 73 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
A travel documentary series for Amazon Prime Video in which James May, best known as a Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter, crosses a single country end to end using whatever local transport he can get onto. The first series, Our Man in Japan (2020), runs from the far north of Hokkaido to the southern tip of Kyushu by way of fishing boats, factories, hot springs, shrines and a long sequence of meals he is obliged to eat on camera. Later series apply the same format to Italy (2022) and India (2024). Each episode strings together sightseeing set-pieces and hands-on demonstrations with local specialists rather than following a narrative through-line.
Released in 2020, James May: Our Man in... is an adventure, comedy and documentary television series. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is PG. Episodes run about 45m.
Only 73 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 82 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them.
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 James May: Our Man in... 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 · 2020s (3,070 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 73.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
