TV Mini Series · 2005 · TV Mini Series · 2000s
Bleak House
Scored from 55 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s (259 peers).
Summary
Andrew Davies's BBC adaptation of Dickens turns on Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a disputed will that has ground through the Court of Chancery for generations, devouring the estate it concerns. Esther Summerson, a young woman raised without knowing her parentage, arrives at Bleak House in Hertfordshire as companion to two wards of the suit, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, under their guardian John Jarndyce. In London, Lady Dedlock reacts to the handwriting on a legal document, and her husband's solicitor, Mr Tulkinghorn, quietly sets about finding the copyist. Broadcast in fifteen instalments scheduled twice weekly in soap-opera fashion, starring Anna Maxwell Martin, Gillian Anderson, Denis Lawson and Charles Dance.
Bleak House (2005) is a miniseries IMDb files under the crime and drama genres. It was made in the United Kingdom. A typical episode runs 30 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 55 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 57 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 258 2000s miniseries, not against the whole corpus.
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 Bleak House 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 Mini Series · 2000s (259 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 55.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s
