TV Series · 2015 · TV Series · 2010s
The Grinder
Scored from 42 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Dean Sanderson (Rob Lowe) has just wrapped eight seasons starring as a crusading trial attorney on a hit legal drama called The Grinder, and with the series over he returns to Boise, Idaho, and installs himself at the family law firm despite never having attended law school. His younger brother Stewart (Fred Savage), the actual lawyer who has quietly kept the practice running, is appalled to find that courtroom instincts Dean learned from scripts keep producing results. Their father Dean Sr. (William Devane) encourages the arrangement, while Stewart's marriage to Debbie and his standing with his own children absorb the fallout. The Fox single-camera sitcom ran one season of 22 episodes.
The Grinder is a 2015 comedy television series. It is rated TV-14. It was made in the United States. A typical episode runs 22 minutes.
3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 29 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 42 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 43 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 Grinder 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 42.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
