TV Series · 2022 · TV Series · 2020s
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Scored from 176 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
A new alien visitor crash-lands on Earth seeking the help of brilliant scientist Justin Falls, the one person who can help him save both his dying world and ours. As he adapts to humanity and pursues a revolutionary energy technology, he must evade government forces hunting him while reckoning with the legacy of a previous alien who came before him.
Released in 2022, The Man Who Fell to Earth is a drama and science-fiction television series.
The calibrated figure is built from 176 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 189 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 38 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,069 2020s 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 Man Who Fell to Earth 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 · 2020s (3,070 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 176.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
