TV Series · 2022 · TV Series · 2020s
House of the Dragon
Scored from 1,618 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
House of the Dragon chronicles the internal conflicts within House Targaryen during the height of their power, approximately 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones. King Viserys I's decision regarding succession sparks tensions between his children and relatives, setting the stage for a devastating civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
House of the Dragon is a 2022 drama, fantasy and action television series starring Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke and Emma D'Arcy. Its certificate is TV-MA. Episodes run about 1h. Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik created it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,290 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,618 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,743 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 House of the Dragon 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 1,618.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
