Citadel — IQ Score 123/200
Citadel has an IQ Score of 123/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.
Engages without demanding much — watchable and reasonably crafted
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
The Russo Brothers' globe-spanning spy franchise, in which Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden play amnesiac agents of a private intelligence agency erased by the rival Manticore. Season 2 (May 2026) tightens the narrative control that Season 1 lacked and rounds the supporting cast into actual characters, but the show's core dilemma — multi-billion-dollar production budgets in service of generic spy tropes — remains unresolved.
The Indian and Italian spinoffs are arguably the franchise's most original work.
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