TV Series · 2019 · TV Series · 2010s
Dickinson
Scored from 159 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
A coming-of-age series reimagining the life of poet Emily Dickinson in 19th-century Amherst, Massachusetts, blending period drama with modern sensibilities, anachronistic music, and surreal flourishes. Emily, a rebellious young woman chafing against the constraints placed on women of her era, pursues her passion for poetry while navigating family tensions and a forbidden romance with her best friend Sue, who becomes engaged to Emily's brother Austin.
Dickinson is a 2019 biography, comedy and drama television series.
3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 159 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 182 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 73 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 Dickinson 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 · 2010s (3,236 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 159.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
