TV Series · 2001 · TV Series · 2000s
Six Feet Under
Scored from 255 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
When Nathaniel Fisher is killed in a collision on Christmas Eve, his family inherits the Los Angeles funeral home he ran. Nate, the older son, comes back from Seattle meaning to leave again and instead takes over the business with his brother David, a repressed deacon hiding his relationship with a police officer, while their mother Ruth and art-student sister Claire renegotiate their own lives. Each episode of Alan Ball's HBO series opens with a death that becomes the week's client, and the dead, Nathaniel included, argue with the living. Five seasons of family drama laced with mordant comedy about the funeral trade.
Six Feet Under is a 2001 comedy and drama television series. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy. It was made in the United States. A typical episode runs 55 minutes. It is rated TV-MA.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 71 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 255 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 275 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them.
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 Six Feet Under 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 255.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
