TV Series · 2021 · TV Series · 2020s
Superman & Lois
Scored from 605 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
Clark Kent and Lois Lane return to Smallville with their teenage sons, Jonathan and Jordan, balancing the demands of family life with Clark's responsibilities as Superman. As the boys grapple with their own emerging identities and powers, the Kent family faces threats from new and familiar foes while reconnecting with small-town roots.
Superman & Lois (2021) is a television series IMDb files under the action, adventure and drama genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 288 of whom clear the calibration test. 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 605 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 649 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Superman & Lois 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 605.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
