TV Series · 1995 · TV Series · 1990s
American Gothic
Scored from 27 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 1990s (630 peers).
Summary
Trinity, South Carolina is run by Sheriff Lucas Buck, an affable man who arranges deaths, debts and favours around town and seems able to bend circumstance itself to his will. When the Temple house is left in ruins and young Caleb orphaned, Buck takes an unsettling interest in the boy and hints at a claim on him, which Caleb's returning cousin, journalist Gail Emory, and the new town doctor, Matt Crower, set themselves against. Caleb's dead sister Merlyn appears to him with warnings the adults cannot hear, while Buck's deputy Ben Healy watches his boss do things no lawman should. Shaun Cassidy created the Southern Gothic drama for CBS with Sam Raimi producing; Gary Cole plays Buck.
Released in 1995, American Gothic is a drama, horror and thriller television series. It is rated TV-14. A typical episode runs 45 minutes. It was made in the United States.
629 other television series from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 7 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 27 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 31 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 American Gothic 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 · 1990s (630 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 27.
Cohort: TV Series · 1990s
