TV Series · 2016 · TV Series · 2010s
Frontier
Scored from 149 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Set in late 18th-century North America, the series follows the brutal struggle for control of the lucrative fur trade. Declan Harp, a part-Irish, part-Cree outlaw, wages a violent campaign against the Hudson's Bay Company and its ruthless leader Lord Benton, while traders, Indigenous nations, and newcomers vie for power across the Canadian wilderness.
Frontier is a 2016 adventure, drama and history television series.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 999 of whom clear the calibration test. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 149 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 157 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Frontier 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 149.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
