TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
Medal of Honor
Scored from 34 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Each of the eight episodes of this Netflix documentary series reconstructs the actions of one recipient of the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's highest decoration. The cases span Sylvester Antolak's one-man charge on machine-gun positions in Italy in 1944, Edward Carter Jr., a Black infantryman whose award arrived more than fifty years after the fact, Hiroshi Miyamura's rearguard stand in Korea, pilot Joe Jackson's landing under fire at Kham Duc in Vietnam, and Clinton Romesha's defence of Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan. Dramatised reenactments of each engagement alternate with archival material and interviews with surviving comrades, historians and relatives. Robert Zemeckis is among the executive producers.
Medal of Honor is a 2018 documentary and war television series. It was made in the United States. A typical episode runs 40 minutes.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. Only 34 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 39 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Medal of Honor 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 34.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
