TV Series · 2009 · TV Series · 2000s
Parks and Recreation
Scored from 329 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A mockumentary-style sitcom following Leslie Knope, an endlessly optimistic mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation department of Pawnee, Indiana. Alongside her quirky coworkers, she navigates small-town politics, civic projects, and personal ambitions while trying to turn an abandoned lot into a community park.
Parks and Recreation is a 2009 comedy television series. Its comedy subtype is Mockumentary.
329 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 350 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 291 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Parks and Recreation 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 329.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
