TV Series · 2013 · TV Series · 2010s
The Originals
Scored from 261 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
A spinoff of The Vampire Diaries, the series follows the Mikaelson siblings - Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah - the original family of vampires, as they return to New Orleans, the city they helped build centuries earlier. Now ruled by Klaus's former protege Marcel, they navigate shifting power struggles among vampires, werewolves, and witches while Klaus confronts an unexpected stake in the city's future.
Released in 2013, The Originals is a drama, fantasy and horror television series.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 261 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 352 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 73 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 Originals 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 261.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
