What is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder's IQ Score?

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder has an IQ Score of 114/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 29/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 25/50 Educational Value, and 33/50 Craft & Quality.

Is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder educational?

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is moderate on educational value, 25/50 on TVI's rubric. Some learning happens, but it isn't the show's primary work.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder , IQ Score 114/200

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder has an IQ Score of 114/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-24·Methodology

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114/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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The Verdict

Best forMystery households, teens included, wanting a school-project investigation played straight

Skip ifYou need people as sharp as the plot; the procedural outpaces the character writing

Use it asA parent-and-teen watch that treats young detective instinct as actual method

Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,587 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Emma Myers plays Pip Fitz-Amobi reopening a closed murder case as a school project, and the adaptation of Holly Jackson's trilogy treats teenage detection as real investigative method rather than romance with a puzzle attached. The second season's turn toward Good Girl, Bad Blood darkens the material and handles its heavier subjects with more care than the first, though the procedural plotting outpaces the character writing around it.

It earns the Competent tier on construction more than on depth.

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