TV Series · 2019 · TV Series · 2010s
Kingdom
Scored from 438 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
In a famine-stricken Joseon-era Korea, Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon) is barred from his father's sickroom and told the king has smallpox. The Haewon Cho clan — Chief State Councillor Cho Hak-ju and his daughter, the young queen — is hiding the truth: the king was raised from death by a resurrection plant and now feeds on the living, and the clan means to hold power until the queen bears an heir. Branded a traitor, Chang rides south to Dongnae to find the physician who treated his father, and finds a village where the dead rise at nightfall. This South Korean series turns that discovery into a period political thriller crossed with zombie horror, with Bae Doona as the physician's assistant Seo-bi.
Kingdom (2019) is a television series IMDb files under the horror, thriller and drama genres. It was made in South Korea. It stars Ju Ji-hoon, Bae Doona and Ryu Seung-ryong. A typical episode runs 60 minutes. Its listed language is Korean. It was created by Kim Eun-hee. It is rated TV-MA.
438 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 488 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 127 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Kingdom 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 438.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
