TV Series · 2008 · TV Series · 2000s
Sons of Anarchy
Scored from 450 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Sons of Anarchy follows Jax Jackson, the vice president of an outlaw motorcycle club in Northern California, as he grapples with the club's illegal operations and escalating personal conflicts. When a traumatic event sets events in motion, Jax becomes entangled in dangerous criminal enterprises while navigating power struggles within the club and competing loyalties to his family and brothers.
Sons of Anarchy is a 2008 crime, drama and thriller television series starring Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal and Mark Boone Junior. Its certificate is TV-MA. Kurt Sutter created it. Episodes run about 45m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 163 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 450 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 485 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Sons of Anarchy 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 450.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
