TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
Motherland: Fort Salem
Scored from 259 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
In an alternate America where witches ended their persecution by striking a deal to fight for the government, three young witches are conscripted into the U.S. Army's elite witch unit at Fort Salem. As they train in combat magic using vocal cords as weapons, they face a rising terrorist threat from a rogue witch faction called the Spree while navigating the personal costs of military service.
Released in 2020, Motherland: Fort Salem is a drama, fantasy and science-fiction television series.
259 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 314 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,069 2020s television series, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 63 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 Motherland: Fort Salem 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 259.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
