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Lady Macbeth IQ Score 161/200

Lady Macbeth has an IQ Score of 161/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

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161/ 200
Masterclass

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

Lady Macbeth poster, IQ Score 161/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

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Cognitive Stimulation/50
41
Educational Value/50
39
Craft & Quality/50
41
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.
Formula
round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)
Database scale
2,606 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

William Oldroyd's 2016 directorial debut anchored by Florence Pugh in her breakthrough role as a young 19th-century English bride trapped in a loveless marriage. The structural commitment to letting Katherine's growing moral architecture (the film escalates from suffocating-domestic-drama to deliberate-poisoner thriller) be the actual subject is canonical mid-2010s prestige indie work.

People & Production William Oldroyd · United Kingdom 14 connections

Direction & creation

On screen & sound

Selected cast
Florence Pugh Cosmo Jarvis Naomi Ackie Christopher Fairbank Paul HiltonSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.
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Cinematography

Production & release

Country of origin
Original language

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Lady Macbeth scored 161/200 (Masterclass tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/lady-macbeth/

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