TV Series · 2013 · TV Series · 2010s
The Americans
Scored from 369 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, played by Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, run a travel agency in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in the early 1980s and are raising two children, Paige and Henry, who believe their parents are American. They are in fact KGB illegals, planted in the United States years earlier and married by their directorate rather than by choice, spending their nights running assets, working honey traps in wigs and disguises, and stealing secrets from the Reagan administration's defense apparatus. When FBI counterintelligence agent Stan Beeman moves in across the street, the hunt for Soviet operations in Washington starts at their doorstep. Created by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg for FX, the period spy drama sets the tradecraft against a marriage that began as an assignment.
The Americans is a 2013 crime, drama and mystery television series. It is rated TV-MA. A typical episode runs 60 minutes. It was made in the United States.
369 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 391 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 208 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus.
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 Americans 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 369.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
