TV Mini Series · 2019 · TV Mini Series · 2010s
The Act
Scored from 167 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s (702 peers).
Summary
An anthology series whose first season dramatizes the real-life story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother Dee Dee, who appears to be a devoted caregiver to a chronically ill daughter. As Gypsy grows older, she begins to question the truth about her conditions and the suffocating control her mother holds over her life, setting the stage for a shocking crime.
Released in 2019, The Act is a biography, crime and drama miniseries.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 34 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s miniseries — 702 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 167 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 178 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 The Act 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 Mini Series · 2010s (702 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 167.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s
