TV Series · 2017 · TV Series · 2010s
The Confession Tapes
Scored from 27 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 Netflix true-crime documentary series, created by Kelly Loudenberg, about murder convictions resting on confessions the defendants insist were false or coerced. Each episode sets archival police interrogation footage against present-day interviews with the convicted, their relatives, detectives and defence lawyers, so the pressure applied inside the interview room plays out on camera. Cases include Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay, caught by an undercover Canadian 'Mr. Big' sting after a family was killed in Bellevue, Washington, and Karen Boes, questioned over the Michigan house fire that killed her daughter. American and Canadian cases are covered across two seasons, released in 2017 and 2019.
Released in 2017, The Confession Tapes is a crime and documentary television series. It was made in the United States. It is rated TV-14. A typical episode runs 55 minutes.
Only 27 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 28 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Confession Tapes 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 27.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
