Is Julia actually good?

Julia sits in the 90.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked seriess, meaning it scores above 90.2% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Julia compare to similar seriess?

Within TV Series · 2020s, Julia lands in the 91.5% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a series for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Julia's score based on?

129 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Julia — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Julia score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2022

global pct

90.2

TV Series · 2022 · TV Series · 2020s

Julia

Name: Julia
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 2022

Scored from 129 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).

90.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

91.5%

In-cohort percentile

TV Series · 2020s · 3,070 titles

98.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

129 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

In early-1960s Boston, Julia Child, newly successful with Mastering the Art of French Cooking, persuades the public television station WGBH to let her demonstrate cooking on air, over the doubts of executives who see no audience for a six-foot-two woman in her fifties teaching French technique. The series follows the making of The French Chef alongside her marriage to Paul Child, a retired diplomat adjusting to being the less celebrated spouse, and her alliances with editor Judith Jones and friend Avis DeVoto. Production troubles, sponsorship and the period's assumptions about women's ambitions run through the episodes. Sarah Lancashire stars in this HBO Max period comedy-drama created by Daniel Goldfarb.

Released in 2022, Julia is a biography and drama television series. It was made in the United States.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them. 129 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 138 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 34 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

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 Julia 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 129.