TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
Joe Pera Talks with You
Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
In this Adult Swim series, comedian Joe Pera plays a soft-spoken version of himself: a middle-school choir teacher in Marquette, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, who addresses the camera directly across eleven-minute episodes. Each one opens as a modest presentation — on iron ore, breakfast foods, fall drives, or how to dance at a wedding — and drifts into the small business of his life. Recurring figures include his grandmother, his excitable neighbour Mike Melsky, and Sarah Conner, a band teacher and doomsday prepper whom Joe courts with great caution. Episodes largely stand alone, but relationships and minor events carry forward across three seasons.
Joe Pera Talks with You is a 2018 comedy and short television series. A typical episode runs 11 minutes. It is rated TV-14. It was made in the United States.
Only 36 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 41 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 14 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 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 Joe Pera Talks with You 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 36.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
