TV Series · 2020 · TV Series · 2020s
Bridgerton
Scored from 1,227 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 Regency-era London, the series follows the wealthy Bridgerton family as they navigate society, romance, and scandal. The first season centers on Daphne Bridgerton's debut into the marriage market and her unexpected romance with the reclusive Duke of Hastings, as a mysterious gossip columnist threatens to expose secrets.
Bridgerton is a 2020 drama, romance and period drama television series starring Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Page and Nicola Coughlan. Episodes run about 55m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is TV-MA. Chris Van Dusen created it.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,227 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,381 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,069 other television series from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 518 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 Bridgerton 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 1,227.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
