TV Mini Series · 2023 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
Love & Death
Scored from 129 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
Based on the true story of Candy Montgomery, a Texas housewife and churchgoing mother in the late 1970s who begins an affair with her friend's husband, Allan Gore. The seemingly orderly suburban lives of those involved unravel as the affair's consequences culminate in a shocking act of violence that stuns their small community.
Love & Death (2023) is a miniseries IMDb files under the biography, crime and drama genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 70 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,093 2020s miniseries, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 129 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 133 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 Love & Death 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 Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 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.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
