TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
Prison Break
Scored from 680 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Structural engineer Michael Scofield deliberately gets imprisoned in Fox River State Penitentiary to help his brother Lincoln Burrows, who is on death row for a crime he didn't commit, escape. Using his detailed knowledge of the prison's blueprint, Michael orchestrates an elaborate plan to break them both out.
Prison Break is a 2005 drama, crime and thriller television series created by Paul Scheuring. Episodes run about 43m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell and Sarah Wayne Callies head the billed cast. Its certificate is TV-14.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 680 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 783 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 153 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 Prison Break 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 680.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
