TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
A Suitable Boy
Scored from 156 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
Set in post-Partition 1950s India, this BBC adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel follows Lata Mehra, a university student whose mother is determined to find her a suitable husband. As Lata navigates three very different suitors, a parallel story follows the politically connected Kapoor family and the charming, troubled Maan Kapoor, whose infatuation with a courtesan singer threatens his family's standing.
A Suitable Boy is a 2020 drama and romance television series.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 156 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 186 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 A Suitable Boy 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 · 2020s (3,070 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 156.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
