Is Say Nothing actually good?

Say Nothing sits in the 96.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked seriess, meaning it scores above 96.1% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Say Nothing compare to similar seriess?

Within TV Mini Series · 2020s, Say Nothing lands in the 94.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a series for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Say Nothing's score based on?

46 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Say Nothing — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Say Nothing score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2024

global pct

96.1

TV Mini Series · 2024 · TV Mini Series · 2020s

Say Nothing

Name: Say Nothing
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Released: 2024
Duration: 55 min

Scored from 46 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).

96.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.7%

In-cohort percentile

TV Mini Series · 2020s · 1,094 titles

96.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

46 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

Adapted from Patrick Radden Keefe's book, this nine-part FX limited series follows Dolours and Marian Price, sisters from a republican family in Belfast who join the IRA in the early 1970s under Brendan Hughes and move from civil-rights marches to a car-bomb campaign in London and a hunger strike in an English prison. Threaded through it is the 1972 abduction of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten taken from the Divis Flats and never returned to her children. Decades later, an oral-history project at Boston College persuades former paramilitaries, Hughes among them, to record what they actually did, on the understanding that the tapes stay sealed until they die. The series cuts between the young volunteers and the older people living with those accounts.

Say Nothing is a 2024 drama, history and thriller miniseries. It was made in the United States. A typical episode runs 55 minutes. It is rated TV-MA.

Only 46 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 51 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 43 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,093 2020s miniseries, not against the whole corpus.

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 Say Nothing 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 · 2020s (1,094 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 46.