What is Good Omens's IQ Score?

Good Omens has an IQ Score of 129/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 40/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 11/50 Educational Value, and 50/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Good Omens educational?

Good Omens is low on educational value, 11/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

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/.

Good Omens IQ Score 129/200

Good Omens has an IQ Score of 129/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-09-07·Methodology

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129/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

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

2,607 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Amazon's adaptation of the Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman novel about an angel and a demon teaming up to prevent the apocalypse because they've grown fond of Earth. Michael Sheen and David Tennant render the angel-demon friendship at the register the source material's tone required.

Season 3 in May 2026 closed the series as a single 90-minute special, the original six-episode plan compressed after Gaiman's removal from showrunning. Critics rated 60% on Rotten Tomatoes and audiences 34%, the compressed runtime and the new-character introductions cited as the structural failure points. The Sheen-Tennant chemistry is what the finale rests on.

People & Production Neil Gaiman · Douglas Mackinnon · BBC Two 22 connections