What is Forbidden Fruits's IQ Score?

Forbidden Fruits has an IQ Score of 94/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Passive tier. The score breaks down to 25/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 19/50 Educational Value, and 27/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Forbidden Fruits educational?

Forbidden Fruits is low on educational value, 19/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Forbidden Fruits , IQ Score 94/200

Forbidden Fruits has an IQ Score of 94/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Passive tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-29·Methodology

horrorcomedy

94/ 200

Passive

Light cognitive engagement, background-safe viewing

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, v1.2

Formula

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

Database scale

2,345 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Meredith Alloway's horror-comedy follows Apple, an employee at a corporate wellness brand who secretly runs a basement coven of witches whose order fractures when a new member arrives, a Mean Girls and The Craft mash-up styled as post-girlboss satire. Reviews were mixed near a 6.5 average because the stylized mall-culture and feminist-wrath premise feels out of step with 2026, the visual wit outpacing a script that never sharpens into the bite it reaches for.

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