What is Gentleman Jack's IQ Score?

Gentleman Jack has an IQ Score of 167/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 40/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 45/50 Educational Value, and 40/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Gentleman Jack educational?

Gentleman Jack is strong on Educational Value, 45/50 on TVI's rubric, which rates the density and integration of substantive information within the work.

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/.

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.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-10-19·Methodology

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167/ 200

Masterclass

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

Score Breakdown

Legacy score. Published under our earlier workflow, before the current standard took effect in August 2026. A founder reviewed and approved it against our methodology, under a process that does not meet the standard we hold now. What this means →

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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: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
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, v1.3.1

Formula

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

Database scale

2,610 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.

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