TV Series · 2023 · TV Series · 2020s
Shrinking
Scored from 396 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 grieving therapist, reeling from the death of his wife, decides to throw out the professional rulebook and start telling his clients exactly what he thinks. His blunt, unorthodox approach upends the lives of his patients, his teenage daughter, and his colleagues, including a curmudgeonly mentor navigating his own diagnosis.
Released in 2023, Shrinking is a comedy and drama television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 221 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 396 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 416 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 Shrinking 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 396.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
