What is Diary of a Country Priest's IQ Score?

Diary of a Country Priest has an IQ Score of 170/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 46/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 36/50 Educational Value, and 46/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Diary of a Country Priest educational?

Diary of a Country Priest is strong on educational value, 36/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

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/.

Diary of a Country Priest , IQ Score 170/200

Name: Diary of a Country Priest
Genre: drama
Rating: 170

Diary of a Country Priest has an IQ Score of 170/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-23·Methodology

drama

170/ 200

Masterclass TVI Essential

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Diary of a Country Priest poster, IQ Score 170/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

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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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

TVI Canon

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TVI Essential · Consensus

Diary of a Country Priest scores 170/200 on the TVI IQ Score, placing it in the Masterclass tier. Bresson's Bernanos adaptation follows a young priest's failing body and parish. Voiceover-journal structure produces interior cinema of rare purity, earning Cultural Impact, Intellectual Substance, and Lasting Significance. TVI Essential is an editorial designation; IQ Score is a content rating, not an intelligence measurement.

The TVI Take

Bresson's Bernanos adaptation follows a young priest's failing body and parish. Voiceover-journal structure produces interior cinema of rare purity.

On suffering, vocation, and the grace that arrives regardless of merit. Foundational to the 'transcendental style.'.

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