TV Mini Series · 2003 · TV Mini Series · 2000s
State of Play
Scored from 38 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s (259 peers).
Summary
Paul Abbott's six-part BBC thriller opens with two apparently unconnected London deaths on the same morning: a teenage drug courier is shot in the street, and Sonia Baker, research assistant to the rising Labour MP Stephen Collins (David Morrissey), falls under a Tube train. Cal McCaffrey (John Simm), a Herald reporter who once ran Collins's election campaign, is put on the story by his editor Cameron Foster (Bill Nighy), setting an old friendship against the paper's interest as Collins's affair with Baker becomes public. The reporting soon runs into the Commons committee inquiry Collins chairs into the oil industry, and the interests it threatens. Kelly Macdonald, James McAvoy and Polly Walker co-star.
State of Play is a 2003 crime, drama and mystery miniseries. It was made in the United Kingdom. A typical episode runs 60 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 38 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 39 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s miniseries — 259 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 State of Play 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 · 2000s (259 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 38.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s
