TV Series · 2024 · TV Series · 2020s
Shōgun
Scored from 594 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
A 17th-century English navigator is shipwrecked in Japan and becomes entangled in the dangerous political machinations of ambitious warlords during the final days of the Sengoku period. Stranded in a foreign land whose customs he doesn't understand, he navigates deadly court intrigue and forms unlikely alliances as powerful daimyo compete for control of a fragmented empire.
Shōgun is a 2024 historical drama, drama and thriller television series created by Justin Marks. Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroyuki Sanada and Yuki Komatsu head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Episodes run about 1h. Its certificate is TV-MA.
The calibrated figure is built from 594 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 651 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them.
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 Shōgun 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 · 2020s (3,070 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 594.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
