TV Series · 2011 · TV Series · 2010s
Shameless
Scored from 486 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
A working-class family in Chicago's South Side struggles to survive as the patriarch, a derelict alcoholic, checks out of family life. His eldest daughter Fiona assumes responsibility for raising her five younger siblings while navigating poverty, evictions, and their chaotic household. The series follows their daily battles against adversity, social services, and each other.
Shameless is a 2011 drama and comedy television series. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy. It is rated TV-MA. It was made in the United States. It stars William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum and Jeremy Allen White. It was created by John Wells. A typical episode runs 53 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 191 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 486 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 538 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Shameless 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 486.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
