TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
Rome
Scored from 239 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Opening in 52 BC as Caesar finishes his conquest of Gaul, this HBO–BBC series tracks the fall of the Roman Republic from two levels at once. Above are Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony, Brutus, Cicero and the young Octavian, plus the rival matriarchs Atia and Servilia; below are Lucius Vorenus, a rigid centurion of the Thirteenth Legion, and Titus Pullo, his insubordinate soldier, who keep stumbling into the hinge of history. Vorenus comes home to a wife and children who have grown strange to him and is pulled into street politics on the Aventine, while Pullo attaches himself to whoever will have him. Two seasons carry the story from civil war through its aftermath.
Rome is a 2005 action, drama and romance television series. Its certificate is TV-MA. Its country of origin is listed as the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. Episodes run about 52m.
The calibrated figure is built from 239 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 245 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 64 of whom clear the calibration test. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s 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 Rome 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 · 2000s (1,360 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 239.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
