TV Series · 2003 · TV Series · 2000s
The O.C.
Scored from 119 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A troubled teen from a rough Chino neighborhood is taken in by a wealthy public defender and his family in Newport Beach, California. As Ryan adjusts to life among the affluent, he befriends the family's awkward son Seth and navigates romance, class tensions, and family drama in a glossy Orange County community.
Released in 2003, The O.C. is a comedy, drama and romance television series.
The calibrated figure is built from 119 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 132 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 41 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 O.C. 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 · 2000s (1,360 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 119.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
