TV Series · 2015 · TV Series · 2010s
Poldark
Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Returning from the American Revolutionary War in 1783, Captain Ross Poldark finds his father dead, his estate in ruins, and his sweetheart engaged to his cousin. He sets about restoring his Cornish copper mines and family fortunes while clashing with the wealthy Warleggan family, and his life takes an unexpected turn when he takes in a scrappy kitchen maid named Demelza.
Released in 2015, Poldark is a drama and romance television series.
3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 180 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 192 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 31 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 Poldark 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 180.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
