TV Series · 2019 · TV Series · 2010s
The Politician
Scored from 199 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Wealthy Santa Barbara high schooler Payton Hobart has known since age seven that he will be President of the United States, but first he has to navigate the savage world of student government elections. Created by Ryan Murphy, the series follows Payton's ruthless campaigns and the personal scandals, rivalries, and family dramas that threaten his carefully plotted path to power.
The Politician is a 2019 comedy and drama television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.
The calibrated figure is built from 199 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 210 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 93 of whom clear the calibration test. 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 Politician 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 199.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
