TV Series · 2019 · TV Series · 2010s
Dark Side of the Ring
Scored from 33 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 Vice documentary series that examines dark and disputed episodes from professional wrestling's past, devoting each installment to a single story. Subjects include the 1997 Montreal Screwjob, the deaths of Owen Hart and Chris Benoit, the murder of Bruiser Brody, the Von Erich family, Brian Pillman and the career of the Fabulous Moolah. Each episode is built from first-hand interviews with wrestlers, promoters, journalists and surviving family members, combined with archival tape and stylised reenactments. Chris Jericho narrates from the second season onward.
Released in 2019, Dark Side of the Ring is a documentary, drama and history television series. A typical episode runs 44 minutes. It is rated TV-MA. It was made in Canada.
Only 33 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 34 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 16 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 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 Dark Side of the Ring 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 33.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
