TV Series · 2008 · TV Series · 2000s
Life on Mars
Scored from 58 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A British crime drama following Detective Sam Tyler, who is hit by a car and awakens in a 1973 Manchester police precinct with no clear way to return to the present day. Uncertain whether he is in a coma, dead, or actually living in the past, Tyler continues solving crimes while searching for answers. The series blends police procedural elements with psychological mystery and surreal atmosphere.
Released in 2008, Life on Mars is a crime, drama and mystery television series. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Episodes run about 1h.
1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 58 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 62 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 on Mars 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 58.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
