TV Series · 2017 · TV Series · 2010s
The Orville
Scored from 1,247 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Set 400 years in the future, the series follows the crew of the USS Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship in the Planetary Union. Captain Ed Mercer leads a diverse crew, including his ex-wife as first officer, on missions of discovery while navigating personal conflicts, alien diplomacy, and threats from the hostile Krill. Blending Star Trek-style sci-fi adventure with workplace comedy and dramatic moral dilemmas.
The Orville (2017) is a television series IMDb files under the adventure, comedy and science-fiction genres.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. 1,247 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 1,328 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Orville 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 1,247.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
