TV Series · 2009 · TV Series · 2000s
Lie to Me
Scored from 130 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Dr. Cal Lightman and his team at the Lightman Group are deception experts who assist law enforcement and government agencies by analyzing facial expressions, body language, and microexpressions to determine when people are lying. Each episode follows the group as they investigate crimes and uncover the truth, while Lightman's unorthodox methods and personal demons complicate his work and relationships.
Lie to Me is a 2009 crime, drama and mystery television series.
1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 15 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 130 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 138 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Lie to Me 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 130.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
