TV Series · 2024 · TV Series · 2020s
Those About to Die
Scored from 197 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 ancient Rome around 79 AD, this epic series explores the corrupt world of gladiatorial games and chariot racing that entertained the masses. It follows Emperor Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian as they navigate political intrigue, while ambitious outsiders, slaves, and impresarios scheme to rise through the brutal spectacle business that holds the empire together.
Those About to Die is a 2024 action and drama television series.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 68 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s television series — 3,070 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 197 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 205 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 Those About to Die 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 197.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
