TV Series · 2019 · TV Series · 2010s
Why Women Kill
Scored from 282 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Marc Cherry's anthology dark comedy for CBS All Access builds each season around marriages that end in a killing. The first braids three decades inside one Pasadena house: Beth Ann Stanton, a 1963 housewife who learns her engineer husband is seeing a waitress and befriends the woman without revealing who she is; Simone Grove, a 1984 socialite who discovers at her own party that her third husband is gay; and Taylor Harding, a 2019 lawyer whose open marriage to a screenwriter tightens when her girlfriend moves in. The episodes cut freely between eras while withholding who dies and at whose hand. A second season resets the cast and moves the story to 1949.
Released in 2019, Why Women Kill is a comedy, crime and drama television series. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-MA.
The calibrated figure is built from 282 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 297 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 52 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them.
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 Why Women Kill 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 282.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
