Is Utopia actually good?

Utopia sits in the 93.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked seriess, meaning it scores above 93.7% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Utopia compare to similar seriess?

Within TV Series · 2010s, Utopia lands in the 92.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a series for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Utopia's score based on?

171 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Utopia — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Utopia score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2013

global pct

93.7

TV Series · 2013 · TV Series · 2010s

Utopia

Name: Utopia
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Released: 2013
Duration: 46 min

Scored from 171 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).

93.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.1%

In-cohort percentile

TV Series · 2010s · 3,236 titles

99.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

171 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

A Channel 4 conspiracy thriller created by Dennis Kelly. Four members of an online message board — office worker Ian, student Becky, bunker-building conspiracy theorist Wilson Wilson and eleven-year-old Grant — arrange to meet in person after one of them gets hold of the manuscript of The Utopia Experiments, an unpublished graphic novel rumoured to have predicted real epidemics. The meeting draws two calm, methodical killers, Arby and Lee, who work for a shadowy organisation called the Network and open every interrogation with the same question: 'Where is Jessica Hyde?' The survivors scatter and run, decoding the pages while trying to work out who Jessica Hyde is. Two series aired in 2013 and 2014.

Released in 2013, Utopia is a drama, mystery and science-fiction television series. Episodes run about 46m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is TV-MA.

The calibrated figure is built from 171 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 180 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 48 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.

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 Utopia 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 171.