TV Series · 2015 · TV Series · 2010s
Life in Pieces
Scored from 101 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
An American comedy series depicting the interconnected lives of the Hughes family across different generations. The show follows parents Heather and Mike and their three adult children living nearby in California.
Life in Pieces is a 2015 comedy television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy. Episodes run about 22m. Its certificate is TV-14. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 22 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 101 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 112 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 Life in Pieces 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 101.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
