TV Series · 2013 · TV Series · 2010s
Orange Is the New Black
Scored from 411 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Piper Chapman, a New York woman engaged to a writer, is sentenced to 15 months in a federal women's prison for transporting drug money a decade earlier for her former girlfriend Alex Vause. Inside Litchfield Penitentiary, she navigates clashing factions, corrupt staff, and the unexpected reappearance of Alex, while flashbacks reveal the lives that led each inmate behind bars.
Orange Is the New Black is a 2013 comedy, crime and drama television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 411 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 430 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 338 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them.
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 Orange Is the New Black 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 411.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
