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Don't Worry Darling IQ Score 150/200

Don't Worry Darling has an IQ Score of 150/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

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150/ 200
Stimulating

Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

Don't Worry Darling poster, IQ Score 150/200, Stimulating tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50
38
Educational Value/50
36
Craft & Quality/50
39
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.
Formula
round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)
Database scale
2,597 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Olivia Wilde's 2022 sci-fi-thriller anchored by Florence Pugh as a 1950s-suburban-housewife discovering the simulation underlying her perfect community. The structural commitment to Wilde's debut directorial vision was overshadowed by the production's commercial-cultural drama.

Lower IQ reflects the execution-vs-ambition gap.

People & Production Olivia Wilde · New Line Cinema · United States 24 connections

On screen & sound

Selected cast
Florence Pugh Harry Styles Chris Pine Gemma Chan Kiki Layne Nick KrollSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.
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Don't Worry Darling scored 150/200 (Stimulating tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/dont-worry-darling/

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