TV Series · 2016 · TV Series · 2010s
Mars
Scored from 203 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
A hybrid documentary-drama series that intercuts a fictional 2033 crewed mission establishing the first human colony on Mars with present-day interviews featuring real scientists, engineers, and visionaries discussing the challenges of getting there. The dramatic storyline follows the international Daedalus crew as they confront the dangers of landing and survival on the red planet.
Mars is a 2016 adventure, drama and science-fiction television series.
The calibrated figure is built from 203 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 218 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 31 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them.
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 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 · 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 203.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
