TV Mini Series · 2019 · TV Mini Series · 2010s
What/If
Scored from 289 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s (702 peers).
Summary
A young married couple's lives are upended when a mysterious and wealthy stranger makes them a tempting but morally fraught offer. As they accept the deal, a chain of consequences unravels their relationships, careers, and sense of self. The anthology-style thriller explores what happens when good people say yes to the wrong proposition.
What/If (2019) is a miniseries IMDb files under the drama, mystery and thriller genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 289 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 303 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 701 2010s miniseries, 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 What/If 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 · 2010s (702 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 289.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s
