TV Series · 2009 · TV Series · 2000s
The Good Wife
Scored from 147 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
After her husband, a Chicago state's attorney, is jailed in a sex and corruption scandal, Alicia Florrick returns to work as a litigator at a prestigious law firm to support her family. Balancing high-stakes cases, office politics with her old law school friend Will Gardner, and the very public fallout of her marriage, she rebuilds her career and identity on her own terms.
The Good Wife (2009) is a television series IMDb files under the crime, drama and mystery genres.
1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 80 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 147 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 153 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 Good Wife 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 147.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
