TV Mini Series · 2017 · TV Mini Series · 2010s
The Defenders
Scored from 314 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s (702 peers).
Summary
Four New York City vigilantes - Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist - reluctantly join forces to take on The Hand, an ancient criminal organization led by the enigmatic Alexandra. As their separate investigations converge, the unlikely team must overcome their differences to protect the city from a threat none of them can face alone.
The Defenders (2017) is a miniseries IMDb files under the action, adventure and crime genres.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s miniseries — 702 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 314 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 320 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 The Defenders 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 · 2010s (702 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 314.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s
