TV Series · 2015 · TV Series · 2010s
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
Scored from 62 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Andrew Jarecki's six-part HBO documentary series investigates Robert Durst, the estranged heir to a New York real-estate dynasty who was linked to three deaths: the 1982 disappearance of his wife Kathie, the 2000 shooting of his confidante Susan Berman, and the 2001 dismemberment of his Galveston neighbor Morris Black. Durst himself contacted Jarecki after seeing All Good Things, the director's fiction film inspired by the case, and volunteered for the interviews that anchor the series. Jarecki intercuts those sessions with archival news footage, court records and reenactments, testing Durst's account against the physical evidence and against the families still seeking answers.
Released in 2015, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst is a biography, crime and documentary television series. Its certificate is TV-MA. Episodes run about 45m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. Only 62 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 65 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 51 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 Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst 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 62.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
