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Gentleman Jack IQ Score 167/200

Gentleman Jack has an IQ Score of 167/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

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167/ 200
Masterclass

Exceptional cognitive and educational substance, delivered with craft that sustains close attention

Gentleman Jack poster, IQ Score 167/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50
40
Educational Value/50
45
Craft & Quality/50
40
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
2,590 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Sally Wainwright's BBC-HBO 2019-2022 series, Suranne Jones as Anne Lister, the 1830s Halifax landowner and diarist whose four-million-word coded journal sets the documentary baseline for queer 19th-century Britain. Jones breaks the fourth wall at strategic emotional beats, Wainwright's structural decision to refuse Victorian-melodrama distance.

The Shibden Hall location and the actual Lister diaries are the period anchor; the show makes specific how negotiation, property, and desire interlocked for a woman of Lister's class.

People & Production BBC One · United Kingdom 15 connections

Direction & creation

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Selected cast
Suranne Jones Joe Armstrong Amelia Bullmore Rosie Cavaliero Peter Davison Gemma JonesSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.

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Cite this score

Gentleman Jack scored 167/200 (Masterclass tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/gentleman-jack/

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