TV Series · 2016 · TV Series · 2010s
The Crown
Scored from 774 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
This Netflix drama series chronicles the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, beginning with her marriage to Prince Philip in 1947 and her ascension to the throne following the death of her father, King George VI. Across successive seasons with rotating casts, it traces the political rivalries, romances, and personal challenges that shaped her decades on the throne and the broader trajectory of the British royal family.
Released in 2016, The Crown is a biography, drama and history television series.
The calibrated figure is built from 774 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 811 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,235 2010s television series, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 492 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Crown 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 774.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
