TV Series · 2019 · TV Series · 2010s
The Righteous Gemstones
Scored from 250 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
A wealthy, dysfunctional family of world-famous televangelists, led by patriarch Eli Gemstone and his squabbling adult children Jesse, Judy, and Kelvin, navigate scandal, blackmail, and bitter rivalries while running their Southern megachurch empire. Beneath the gospel and gilded mansions, the clan's greed, hypocrisy, and personal failings constantly threaten to bring the whole operation crashing down.
Released in 2019, The Righteous Gemstones is a comedy and drama television series. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 250 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 271 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 163 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 Righteous Gemstones 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 250.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
