TV Series · 2016 · TV Series · 2010s
The Good Place
Scored from 651 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
After her death, self-absorbed Eleanor Shellstrop wakes up in 'the Good Place,' a heavenly afterlife reserved for exceptional people. Realizing she was sent there by mistake, she enlists a moral philosophy professor to teach her how to be good so she can earn her spot and avoid being discovered. The series follows her and a tight-knit group of fellow afterlife residents as they wrestle with ethics, identity, and what it means to be a better person.
Released in 2016, The Good Place is a comedy, drama and fantasy television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 651 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 694 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus.
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 Good Place 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 651.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
