Is Pachinko actually good?

Pachinko sits in the 95.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked seriess, meaning it scores above 95.7% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Pachinko compare to similar seriess?

Within TV Series · 2020s, Pachinko lands in the 96.4% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a series for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Pachinko's score based on?

88 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Pachinko — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Pachinko score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2022

global pct

95.7

TV Series · 2022 · TV Series · 2020s

Pachinko

Name: Pachinko
Genre: Drama
Released: 2022

Scored from 88 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).

95.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

96.4%

In-cohort percentile

TV Series · 2020s · 3,070 titles

98.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

88 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

Adapted from Min Jin Lee's novel, the Apple TV+ drama follows four generations of one Korean family and cuts between two timelines. In 1930s Yeongdo, Busan, under Japanese occupation, Sunja is a boarding-house keeper's daughter courted by Koh Hansu, a wealthy fish broker; pregnant and unmarried, she instead accepts a proposal from Baek Isak, a tubercular young pastor who takes her to the Korean slums of Osaka. In 1989 Tokyo, her grandson Solomon, an American-educated Zainichi banker, chases a real-estate deal blocked by one elderly woman who will not sell her land. Youn Yuh-jung, Minha Kim, Lee Min-ho and Jin Ha star, playing in Korean, Japanese and English with color-coded subtitles.

Pachinko (2022) is a television series IMDb files under the drama genre. It was made in the United States, in Korean. It is rated TV-MA.

Only 88 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 122 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 42 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 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 Pachinko 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 88.