TV Mini Series · 1997 · TV Mini Series · 1990s
The Shining
Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1990s (142 peers).
Summary
Recovering alcoholic writer Jack Torrance takes a winter caretaker job at the isolated Overlook Hotel, bringing his wife Wendy and psychically gifted son Danny. As snow seals them in, the hotel's malevolent supernatural forces work to possess Jack and turn him against his family, while Danny's 'shining' ability reveals the horrors closing in around them.
Released in 1997, The Shining is a drama, fantasy and horror miniseries.
The calibrated figure is built from 180 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 185 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 141 other miniseries from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Shining 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 Mini Series · 1990s (142 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 180.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1990s
