TV Mini Series · 1981 · TV Mini Series · 1980s
Brideshead Revisited
Scored from 51 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1980s (94 peers).
Summary
Captain Charles Ryder, billeted with his army unit at a requisitioned country house in 1944, recognises it as Brideshead and recalls the twenty years that bound him to its owners. At Oxford in the 1920s he was taken up by Lord Sebastian Flyte, a charming undergraduate with a teddy bear, who drew him into a life of champagne and idleness and then into his family: the aristocratic, Catholic Marchmains, whose faith shapes and constrains all of them. Charles's attachment shifts over the years from Sebastian to his sister Julia, while Sebastian's drinking deepens. Granada's eleven-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel stars Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, with Laurence Olivier and Claire Bloom.
Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 drama and romance miniseries. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s miniseries — 94 of them. Only 51 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 53 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3 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 Brideshead Revisited 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 · 1980s (94 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 51.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1980s
