TV Series · 2011 · TV Series · 2010s
Person of Interest
Scored from 358 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Harold Finch, a reclusive billionaire programmer, built a secret mass-surveillance system for the U.S. government that predicts violent crime; it flags terrorism for its handlers and deletes the rest, so Finch left a back door that hands him each discarded case as a lone Social Security number. Because the number cannot say whether the person will be a victim or a killer, he hires John Reese, a presumed-dead former CIA operative found drifting in New York, to find out and intervene. Their off-book work entangles NYPD detectives Carter and Fusco and draws attention from organized crime and from agencies that would kill to keep the Machine secret. Jonathan Nolan created this CBS science-fiction crime series, which ran five seasons from 2011 to 2016.
Released in 2011, Person of Interest is an action, crime and drama television series. Its certificate is TV-14. Episodes run about 43m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 358 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 397 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 129 of whom clear the calibration test. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Person of Interest 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 358.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
