TV Series · 2003 · TV Series · 2000s
One Tree Hill
Scored from 136 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Set in the small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, the series follows two estranged half-brothers, Lucas and Nathan Scott, who share the same father but lead very different lives. Their rivalry on and off the basketball court draws in a tight-knit circle of friends as they navigate family conflict, romance, and ambition through high school and into adulthood.
One Tree Hill is a 2003 drama, romance and sport television series.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 136 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 157 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 26 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 One Tree Hill 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 136.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
