TV Series · 2021 · TV Series · 2020s
Shadow and Bone
Scored from 779 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
In a fantasy world, Alina Starkov discovers she possesses a rare magical power to summon light. Conscripted into the Second Army during a war, she becomes central to the conflict surrounding the Fold, a dark and dangerous magical barrier. As she trains to harness her abilities, she navigates political intrigue and discovers the true extent of her power.
Shadow and Bone is a 2021 fantasy, drama and adventure television series starring Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes and Gaten Matarazzo. Episodes run about 50m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-14. Eric Heisserer created it.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,069 2020s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 779 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 864 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 278 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 Shadow and Bone 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 779.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
