How the Trust Score works

The Trust Score is built from an aggregate reception rating from our catalog data.

We don't pass that rating through as-is. Movies and TV shows get rated on noticeably different curves, so the same raw number means different things for a film and a series. We put both on one shared scale first, so an 85 means the same thing whichever you're looking at.

Watch Picker is built for choosing something good, not for grading everything ever made, so the scale is deliberately set high: a typical title lands around 80. Read the score as how confident you can be in a title, not as a mark out of 100. The differences that matter are near the top.

Scores in the high 90s are rare by design. Only a handful of titles in the whole catalog reach them.

Brand-new titles show “Too new to rank yet” until there's enough reception to score them fairly. They still appear under New Releases; they just aren't ranked against everything else.

Star ratings from Watch Picker members appear alongside the Trust Score but aren't blended into it, so a handful of early reviews can't swing it.

Scores are recalculated every week as new ratings come in. A title's score can move a point or two over time; that's the data catching up, not a change of opinion.