TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
Never Have I Ever
Scored from 471 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
Devi Vishwakumar, an Indian-American teenager, grieves her father's death while navigating high school social hierarchy and her mother's traditional expectations. Determined to transform her social status and escape her 'loser' reputation, Devi embarks on a journey of self-discovery involving romance, family conflict, and cultural identity.
Released in 2020, Never Have I Ever is a comedy and drama television series. Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher created it, with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Poorna Jagannathan and Richa Shukla in the cast. Its certificate is TV-14. Episodes run about 27m. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 471 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 518 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 189 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,069 2020s television series, not against the whole corpus.
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 Never Have I Ever 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 471.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
