TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
Messiah
Scored from 739 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
A mysterious man claiming to be a divine messenger emerges in the Middle East, attracting millions of followers worldwide and sparking investigations by intelligence agencies and world leaders.
Messiah is a 2020 drama, thriller and mystery television series created by Michael Petroni. Matthew Gray Gubler and Michelle Monaghan head the billed cast. Its certificate is TV-MA. Episodes run about 50m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 739 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 816 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 211 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Messiah 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 · 2020s (3,070 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 739.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
