Total Recal 2070 by the numbers

Well, here we go again. This was more of a challenge this time because there were more episodes than usual. Some notes: I treated Machine Dreams as one episode, since it was originally one episode and wasn’t even broken down like a two parter – at least not on YouTube anyway. Everyone gave both parts the same rating except JohnQ so I averaged his out. Also, since Madp seemed pretty adamant that he should have given “Machine Dreams” a ten, I changed his rating of it to a ten. Okay, here we go:

Overall ranking for show (by averaging all episode rankings)
Brimfin – 8.119
Michaellevenson –7.429
Madp – 7.143
Lorkis – 7.000
JohnQ – 6.595

Highest–ranked episodes by individuals
Lorkis – Bones Beneath My Skin (10)
Madp – Meet My Maker, Machine Dreams (10)
Brimfin – Baby Lottery, Nothing like the Real Thing, Paranoid (10)
Michaellevenson – Machine Dreams, Burning Desire, Bones Beneath My Skin, Meet My Maker (10)
JohnQ – Eye Witness (9)

Highest-ranked episodes by overall ranking
Paranoid (8.8)
Machine Dreams (8.75)
Meet My Maker (8.6)
Rough Whimper of Insanity (8.5)
(The top-rated episode of The Prisoner (2009) was “Schizoid.” The top rated one here was “Paranoid.” So, just give an episode title an “oid” at the end, and you have a hit. Unless, maybe you call it “Hemorrhoid.”)

Lowest-ranked episodes by individuals
Michaellevenson – Virtual Justice (1)
Lorkis – Eye Witness (4)
Madp – Begotten Not Made, Brightness Falls, Virtual Justice (4)
JohnQ – First Wave, Begotten Not Made, Bones Beneath My Skin (4)
Brimfin – Astral Projections, Virtual Justice (6)

Lowest-ranked episodes by overall ratings
Virtual Justice (4.4)
Begotten Not Made (4.8)
Eye Witness (6.4)

Most consistently-ranked episodes
Rough Whimper of Insanity (9,9,8,8)
Paranoid (10,9,9,9,7)
Self-Inflicted (8,7,7,6)
Personal Effects (9,9,7,7,7)

Least consistently-ranked episodes
Eye Witness (9,8,6,5,4) (and was ranked lowest by one reviewer and highest by another)
Burning Desire (10,9,8,6)
Bones Beneath My Skin (10,8,8,6,5) (also was ranked lowest by one reviewer and highest by another – although the lowest ranking involved a tie)

The sad thing is that despite the fact I enjoyed this show, as I write all these titles I can’t remember what a third of them were even about.

Average episode ranking overall: 7.281.
Technically the highest ranking show since I started this process over 2 years ago; Brimstone was 7.280. But since I changed madp’s ranking of Machine Dreams after the fact and the rankings were so close, I’m declaring it a tie between those two shows.)

Until next time...