TV Series · 2022 · TV Series · 2020s
The Gilded Age
Scored from 375 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
Set in 1880s New York City, the series follows young Marian Brook, who moves in with her wealthy old-money aunts on East 61st Street after her father's death. Across the street, the nouveau riche Russell family - led by ruthless railroad tycoon George and his ambitious wife Bertha - try to break into high society. The show explores the clash between established aristocracy and new money, alongside the lives of servants and the rising Black middle class through Marian's friend Peggy Scott.
Released in 2022, The Gilded Age is a drama television series.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 156 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 375 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 396 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,069 other television series from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Gilded Age 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 · 2020s (3,070 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 375.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
