Big Love — IQ Score 164/200
Big Love has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer's 2006-11 HBO drama about a Salt Lake City fundamentalist-Mormon polygamist (Bill Paxton) and his three wives.
The structural commitment to letting Utah-specific Latter-Day-Saint cultural cognitive register be the actual subject — and the polygamy-as-business-architecture rendering — is canonical HBO mid-2000s prestige drama. Pre-Yellowstone treatment of Western religious-political material.
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