TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
Paatal Lok
Scored from 866 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
A Delhi police officer is tasked with investigating an assassination attempt on a prominent news reporter. What begins as a seemingly simple case spirals into a complex, dangerous conspiracy that unveils the darker underbelly of Indian society, politics, and crime.
Paatal Lok is a 2020 crime, thriller and drama television series starring Jaideep Ahlawat, Neeraj Kabi and Gul Panag. Episodes run about 55m. It was made in India, in Hindi. Suddeep Sharma created it. Its certificate is TV-MA.
3,069 other television series from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 866 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,068 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10 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 Paatal Lok 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 866.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
