What is Heartstopper's IQ Score?

Heartstopper has an IQ Score of 92/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Passive tier. The score breaks down to 22/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 18/50 Educational Value, and 32/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Heartstopper educational?

Heartstopper is low on educational value, 18/50 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/.

Heartstopper IQ Score 92/200

Heartstopper has an IQ Score of 92/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Passive tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-28·Methodology

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92/ 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, v1.3

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

Alice Oseman's webcomic adapted with the same gentleness as the source, two British schoolboys, Charlie and Nick, find each other across a friendship that becomes a relationship. The show treats coming-out as a process rather than an event, and the depictions of eating disorders, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts get real screen time rather than crisis-arc compression.

The animated motifs (leaves, sparks) externalize interiority without forcing voiceover. Useful for families navigating LGBTQ+ adolescence.

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