TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
My Name Is Earl
Scored from 98 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Earl Hickey is a small-time crook in the rural backwater of Camden County who wins $100,000 on a scratch ticket, steps outside, is hit by a car, and loses the ticket. Recovering in the hospital, he hears a talk-show host explain karma and decides his run of bad luck is payback for a lifetime of stealing. He writes out a numbered list of every rotten thing he has ever done and sets about making amends item by item, helped by his slow-witted brother Randy, motel maid Catalina, his ex-wife Joy and her husband Darnell. Most episodes of this single-camera NBC sitcom cover one item on the list, and the people Earl wronged rarely let him settle up easily.
Released in 2005, My Name Is Earl is a comedy television series. A typical episode runs 22 minutes. It was made in the United States. It is rated TV-14.
Only 98 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 103 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 23 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 My Name Is Earl 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 · 2000s (1,360 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 98.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
