TV Series · 2004 · TV Series · 2000s
Lost
Scored from 836 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 commercial airliner crashes on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. Survivors must work together to stay alive while uncovering the island's mysterious properties and phenomena. As they struggle for rescue and survival, they begin to discover that their presence on the island may be far more connected to their individual pasts than mere chance.
Lost (2004) is a television series IMDb files under the drama, mystery and science fiction genres. It stars Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway. It was created by J.J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber. It is rated TV-14. A typical episode runs 44 minutes. It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 248 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. 836 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 917 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Lost 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 836.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
