TV Series · 2017 · TV Series · 2010s
Mr. Mercedes
Scored from 293 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 retired detective haunted by an unsolved case is taunted by the perpetrator of a brutal mass-casualty attack, in which a stolen Mercedes was driven into a crowd of job-seekers. Drawn back into the hunt, he engages in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the disturbed young killer, who is plotting an even more horrifying second act.
Released in 2017, Mr. Mercedes is a crime, drama and mystery television series.
The calibrated figure is built from 293 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 305 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 72 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 Mr. Mercedes 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 293.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
