TV Mini Series · 2019 · TV Mini Series · 2010s
Leaving Neverland
Scored from 366 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s (702 peers).
Summary
A two-part documentary in which two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, describe in detail their childhood relationships with Michael Jackson and allege he sexually abused them over a period of years. Their families also speak about how Jackson drew them into his orbit and the long-term emotional aftermath the men say they have lived with as adults.
Leaving Neverland is a 2019 documentary miniseries.
701 other miniseries from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 366 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 404 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 113 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 Leaving Neverland 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 Mini Series · 2010s (702 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 366.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2010s
