TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
The Boondocks
Scored from 52 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Aaron McGruder's Adult Swim series, adapted from his own comic strip and animated in an anime-influenced style, follows the Freemans after Robert "Granddad" Freeman moves his two grandsons out of Chicago's South Side into Woodcrest, a wealthy and almost entirely white suburb. Ten-year-old Huey is a self-appointed black revolutionary who narrates and analyzes everything around him; his eight-year-old brother Riley models himself on gangsta rap and treats the neighborhood as a stage. Their new surroundings supply targets, from the eager-to-please attorney Tom DuBois to the ferociously self-loathing handyman Uncle Ruckus, for a satire aimed at American racial politics, celebrity culture and respectability.
The Boondocks (2005) is a television series IMDb files under the action, animation and comedy genres. A typical episode runs 23 minutes. It is rated TV-14. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. Only 52 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 54 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Boondocks 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 · 2000s (1,360 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 52.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
