TV Series · 2001 · TV Series · 2000s
The Office
Scored from 130 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 documentary crew settles in at the Slough branch of the Wernham Hogg paper company, where regional manager David Brent treats the cameras as proof that he is an entertainer and a friend first and a boss somewhere after that. Head office is weighing redundancies and a merger with the Swindon branch, news Brent keeps mishandling. Below him, sales rep Tim Canterbury torments the humourless Gareth Keenan, who insists on the title of assistant regional manager, and never quite says what he means to Dawn, the engaged receptionist. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant created and wrote the BBC mockumentary, which ran to two series of six episodes plus a two-part Christmas special.
Released in 2001, The Office is a comedy and drama television series. It was made in the United Kingdom. A typical episode runs 30 minutes. It is rated TV-14.
130 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 133 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 20 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,359 2000s 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 Office 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 130.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
