TV Mini Series · 2018 · TV Mini Series · 2010s
Sharp Objects
Scored from 571 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s (702 peers).
Summary
A crime reporter with a troubled past returns to her hometown to cover the murder of two young girls. As she investigates the crimes, she confronts her own psychological demons and uncovers dark secrets within her fractured family and the small-town community.
Released in 2018, Sharp Objects is a drama, crime and thriller miniseries. Episodes run about 55m. Marti Noxon created it, with Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson and Chris Messina in the cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-MA.
The calibrated figure is built from 571 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 603 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s miniseries — 702 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 125 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 Sharp Objects 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 · 2010s (702 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 571.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s
