TV Mini Series · 2018 · TV Mini Series · 2010s
Maniac
Scored from 529 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s (702 peers).
Summary
Two strangers with depression and unresolved personal struggles enroll in an experimental pharmaceutical trial. The drug plunges them into surreal, interconnected alternate realities where they confront their deepest traumas and inner demons.
Maniac is a 2018 dark comedy, science fiction and drama miniseries created by Patrick Somerville. Emma Stone and Jonah Hill head the billed cast. Its certificate is TV-MA. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 123 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 701 2010s miniseries, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 529 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 559 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 Maniac 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 Mini Series · 2010s (702 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 529.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s
