TV Mini Series · 2008 · TV Mini Series · 2000s
The Andromeda Strain
Scored from 120 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s (259 peers).
Summary
After a U.S. military satellite crashes near a small Utah town and kills nearly all its residents, an elite team of scientists is rushed to a secret underground lab to identify the deadly extraterrestrial microorganism responsible. As they race to contain the rapidly mutating pathogen, they uncover a government conspiracy tied to the satellite's true purpose, while the contagion threatens to spread beyond quarantine.
The Andromeda Strain (2008) is a miniseries IMDb files under the drama, mystery and science-fiction genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 258 2000s miniseries, not against the whole corpus. 120 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 123 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 The Andromeda Strain 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 120.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s
