TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
Mr. Sunshine
Scored from 174 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Eugene Choi is born a slave in Joseon Korea, escapes to the United States as a child during the 1871 American expedition, and returns to Hanseong decades later as a U.S. Marine Corps captain posted to the American legation, owing his birth country nothing. There he meets Go Ae-shin, the sheltered granddaughter of a powerful noble house, who trains in secret as a sniper for the Righteous Army resisting Japanese encroachment. Their attachment crosses a class line Joseon does not permit and entangles them with Gu Dong-mae, a butcher's son turned Japanese gang enforcer, hotel owner Kudo Hina, and Ae-shin's nobleman fiance Kim Hui-seong. Written by Kim Eun-sook, the 24-episode tvN drama is set in the last years of the Korean Empire before annexation.
Mr. Sunshine (2018) is a television series IMDb files under the action, drama and history genres. It was made in South Korea, in Korean. Its certificate is 15+. Episodes run about 1h 20m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 174 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 200 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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. Sunshine 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 174.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
