TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
The Young Offenders
Scored from 28 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Conor MacSweeney and Jock O'Keeffe, the inseparable Cork delinquents played by Alex Murphy and Chris Walley, return in this BBC and RTÉ sitcom spun off from Peter Foott's 2016 film. Permanently broke and only nominally in education, the pair chase schemes around the city and around Conor's mother Mairead's fish stall in the English Market, and every one of them collapses on top of them. Mairead, played by Hilary Rose, tries to hold the household together, Sergeant Healy pursues the boys with a personal grudge, and their school principal makes doomed attempts to keep them enrolled. It is a half-hour comedy performed in thick Cork accents, alternating slapstick with domestic drama.
The Young Offenders (2018) is a television series IMDb files under the comedy genre. Its country of origin is listed as Ireland. Its certificate is TV-15. Episodes run about 30m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. Only 28 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 31 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Young Offenders 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 28.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
