TV Series · 2010 · TV Series · 2010s
Rake
Scored from 93 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Cleaver Greene is a Sydney barrister who takes the briefs nobody else will — cannibals, bigamists, compromised ministers — and who is at least as much of a wreck as his clients, owing money to bookmakers and standover men, using cocaine, and sleeping with Scarlet, the wife of his best friend and instructing solicitor Barney. His ex-wife Wendy, a therapist, and their teenage son keep him attached to something like ordinary life, as does Missy, the sex worker he sees and rarely pays. Each episode sets an absurd trial against the steady collapse of Cleaver's private arrangements. The Australian ABC comedy-drama stars Richard Roxburgh and was co-created by Charles Waterstreet, the barrister the character is loosely modelled on.
Rake is a 2010 comedy and drama television series. Its certificate is MA. Episodes run about 45m. Its country of origin is listed as Australia.
3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 20 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 93 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 96 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Rake 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 93.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
