TV Series · 2015 · TV Series · 2010s
Merlí
Scored from 27 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Merlí Bergeron is a broke, deliberately provocative philosophy teacher who takes a post at a Barcelona secondary school and runs his class like a Greek academy, dubbing his students the Peripatetics and building each episode around a single thinker. Evicted from his flat, he moves in with his mother Carmina, a retired actress, and with his teenage son Bruno, who ends up as one of his pupils and resents it. His methods reach the students but collide with parents, colleagues and the school's management, while Bruno works out his own sexuality alongside classmate Pol Rubio. The Catalan-language series ran three seasons on TV3, with Francesc Orella as Merlí.
Merlí is a 2015 comedy, drama and romance television series. Its certificate is TV-MA. It plays in Catalan. Episodes run about 50m. Its country of origin is listed as Spain.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. Only 27 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 31 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Merlí 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 27.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
