TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
Wallander
Scored from 34 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged inspector with the police in Ystad, a coastal town in Skåne in southern Sweden, where murders, kidnappings and disappearances keep landing on his desk. Played by Krister Henriksson, he is a brooding, self-neglecting detective whose work erodes his health and, in the earlier films, his attempts to be a father to his daughter Linda, a young officer in the same squad. Each installment is a self-contained feature-length case worked through with his colleagues, using Henning Mankell's characters in stories mostly written directly for the screen rather than adapted from the novels. This is the Swedish-language series, separate from the BBC version starring Kenneth Branagh.
Wallander (2005) is a television series IMDb files under the crime, drama and mystery genres. Its listed language is Swedish. A typical episode runs 90 minutes. It was made in Sweden.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,359 2000s television series, not against the whole corpus. Only 34 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 35 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 Wallander 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 · 2000s (1,360 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 34.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
