TV Series · 2021 · TV Series · 2020s
Maharani
Scored from 156 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
When the Chief Minister of Bihar is forced to step down due to political crisis, he installs his unassuming, illiterate wife Rani Bharti as his replacement, expecting her to be a puppet. Instead, Rani gradually finds her own political voice and begins making independent decisions that challenge the entrenched power structures of caste, corruption, and patriarchy in 1990s Bihar.
Maharani (2021) is a television series IMDb files under the drama genre.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,069 2020s television series, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 156 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 188 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 Maharani 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 156.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
