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Your Brain Diet

Themed viewing plans built around IQ Score. Watch with intention.

If You Liked Breaking Bad
Morally complex, narratively dense. For viewers who want to be challenged, not just entertained.
6 titles IQ 144–178 Adult
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Replace Cocomelon
Your child deserves better. Here's what actually develops language, empathy, and curiosity.
6 titles IQ 168–192 Kids
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Documentaries That Change How You Think
Not background noise. Content that rewires a belief you held before you pressed play.
6 titles IQ 197–200 Adult
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Best Shows for Curious Kids 4–7
High SEL, high cognitive load, zero talking-at-the-screen. Curated by a licensed school psychologist.
6 titles IQ 154–184 Kids
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Friday Night Films That Stick With You
Films worth the two hours. Long after the credits, you're still thinking.
6 titles IQ 167–198 Adult
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What to Watch After Succession
Power as pathology, legacy as tragedy. Six shows that share the same structural DNA.
6 titles IQ 144–178 Adult
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After The Bear, The Pursuit of Excellence
Six shows that ask what obsession with craft actually costs.
6 titles IQ 155–188 Adult
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Watch This Instead of Doomscrolling
Your feed is designed to keep you anxious. These six shows are the structural antidote.
6 titles IQ 152–192 Adult
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TV That Teaches You Something Real
The highest-Educational-Value shows in the database. You leave knowing more than when you started.
6 titles IQ 178–197 Adult
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TV for Insomniacs
Slow-paced, contemplative, mentally engaged. Not background noise. Companionship for 2am.
8 titles IQ 130–180 Adult
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TV to Watch With Your Aging Parents
Pacing that respects multi-generational cognition, IQ high enough to satisfy the adult viewers running the watch party.
8 titles IQ 140–190 Adult
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TV That Makes You Smarter About Money
Wolf of Wall Street, Industry, Margin Call, Bad Vegan, Inventing Anna, economics as actual subject.
7 titles IQ 130–180 Adult
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TV About How Power Actually Works
Succession, Veep, Yes Minister, The Crown, Borgen. Power's actual architecture, not the West Wing fantasy.
8 titles IQ 145–185 Adult
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TV for First-Time Dads
This Is Us, Interstellar, Boyhood, Bluey. Smart shows about fatherhood, not the sitcom-dad framing.
8 titles IQ 145–190 Adult
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TV for Long Flights
Chernobyl, Queen's Gambit, Slow Horses, Beef. Smart enough to satisfy, contained enough to finish in 6 hours.
8 titles IQ 140–185 Adult
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TV for When You're Sick
Ted Lasso, Schitt's Creek, Anne with an E. Comfort viewing that doesn't condescend.
8 titles IQ 135–175 Adult
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TV for When You're Angry
Beef, Succession, Mare of Easttown. Smart shows that treat rage as actual subject, catharsis without becoming fuel.
7 titles IQ 145–185 Adult
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TV for Recovering Workaholics
Slow Horses, Detectorists, Bluey, Schitt's Creek. Smart TV that lets you stop optimizing.
7 titles IQ 145–190 Adult
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TV for People Who Hate "Prestige TV"
Schitt's Creek, Fleabag, The Good Place, Veep. Smart isn't a register, it's a quality of attention.
8 titles IQ 130–180 Adult
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Smart TV Under 30 Minutes
Maximum IQ, minimum time commitment. Fleabag, Atlanta, I May Destroy You.
6 titles IQ 142–172 Adult
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The Best Sci-Fi by IQ Score
Science fiction that earns its ideas. Ranked by intellectual depth, not spectacle.
6 titles IQ 155–192 Adult
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Political Dramas Worth Your Time
From idealism to corrosion, the full range of intelligent political television.
6 titles IQ 148–178 Adult
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The Highest-IQ Films in the Database
Seven Samurai, 2001, Parasite, Rashomon. The data-built best-of-cinema list.
6 titles IQ 188–200 Adult
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Shows That Understand Grief
Not resolution. Not comfort. Six shows that treat loss with the seriousness it deserves.
6 titles IQ 148–175 Adult
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Best Kids Shows for Ages 8–12
Avatar, Gravity Falls, Hilda. Complex narratives that respect the viewer's intelligence.
6 titles IQ 144–184 Kids
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