TV Series · 2017 · TV Series · 2010s
The Deuce
Scored from 161 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Set in and around Times Square in the early 1970s, this HBO drama follows the rise of the porn industry and its intersection with the worlds of pimps, prostitutes, mobsters, cops, and bartenders in New York City. Twin brothers Vincent and Frankie Martino (both played by James Franco) and street-smart sex worker Eileen 'Candy' Merrell (Maggie Gyllenhaal) navigate the shifting economics of vice as legalization and corporate interests reshape the neighborhood across the decade.
The Deuce is a 2017 crime, drama and mystery television series.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 58 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 161 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 173 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 Deuce 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 · 2010s (3,236 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 161.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
