What is Hannibal's IQ Score?

Hannibal has an IQ Score of 149/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 42/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 27/50 Educational Value, and 44/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Hannibal educational?

Hannibal is moderate on educational value, 27/50 on TVI's rubric. Some learning happens, but it isn't the show's primary 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/.

Hannibal , IQ Score 149/200

Hannibal has an IQ Score of 149/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-24·Methodology

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149/ 200

Stimulating

Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

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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The Verdict

Best forViewers who want their serial-killer drama staged as baroque opera, gorgeous and unnerving at once

Skip ifYou prefer tidy case-of-the-week procedurals; the imagery is lush, violent, and deliberately excessive

Use it asA study in formal escalation, how style itself becomes the source of menace

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

Formula

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

Database scale

2,587 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

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The TVI Take

Reimagines detective procedural as baroque psychological thriller where criminal profiler builds relationship with serial killer, creating formal and emotional escalation.

People & Production Ridley Scott · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer · United States 31 connections

Direction & creation

Director

Ridley Scott

Writer

David Mamet Steven Zaillian

Producer

Dino De Laurentiis Aurelio De Laurentiis Ridley Scott

On screen & sound

Selected cast

Andrea Piedimonte Anthony Hopkins Ennio Coltorti Enrico Lo Verso Fabrizio Gifuni Francesca NeriSelected alphabetically; not billing order.

Composer

Hans Zimmer

Cinematography

John Mathieson

Production & release

Production company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists Universal Pictures Scott Free Productions

Distributor

InterCom

Country of origin

United States Italy United Kingdom

Original language

English

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Based on

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The Trailer

Official trailer, embedded from YouTube.

Characters Scored Here

People search for these characters by name. TVI doesn't invent fictional-character IQ numbers, but Hannibal's score is the honest answer to how seriously the work treats each mind.

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