TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
Locke & Key
Scored from 1,095 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
When the Locke family relocates to their ancestral New England home following a devastating family tragedy, they discover magical keys hidden throughout the house that unlock supernatural abilities and dark family secrets. As the children experiment with the keys' powers, they must protect them from a mysterious enemy who seeks to exploit their magic. The series follows the family as they navigate grief, adolescence, and increasingly dangerous forces surrounding their home.
Locke & Key is a 2020 horror, fantasy and mystery television series created by Carlton Cuse. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup and Emilia Jones head the billed cast. Its certificate is TV-14. Episodes run about 50m.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,069 2020s television series, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 288 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,095 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,148 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 Locke & Key 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 1,095.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
