TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
The Kominsky Method
Scored from 341 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas) had a brief moment as a film actor decades ago and now runs a well-regarded acting studio in Los Angeles with his daughter Mindy (Sarah Baker). His oldest friend is his agent Norman Newlander (Alan Arkin), a far wealthier man whose wife is dying of cancer as the series opens. Chuck Lorre's Netflix half-hour follows the pair through the practicalities of late life — prostate trouble, funerals, unpaid taxes, auditions that go badly, and a romance between Sandy and a woman in his class (Nancy Travis) — with Norman's grief and Sandy's finances driving much of the first season.
The Kominsky Method (2018) is a television series IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Episodes run about 30m. Its certificate is TV-MA. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 73 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 341 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 369 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 Kominsky Method 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 341.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
