TV Mini Series · 2018 · TV Mini Series · 2010s
Patrick Melrose
Scored from 120 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s (702 peers).
Summary
Adapted from Edward St. Aubyn's semi-autobiographical novels, this five-part miniseries traces the life of Patrick Melrose, a wealthy Englishman scarred by a traumatic childhood at the hands of his sadistic father and complicit mother. Each episode jumps across decades, charting his descent into heroin and alcohol addiction and his struggle to confront the past and break the cycle for his own family.
Released in 2018, Patrick Melrose is a drama miniseries.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 33 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 701 2010s miniseries, not against the whole corpus. 120 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 129 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Patrick Melrose 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 Mini Series · 2010s (702 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 120.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s
