What is Landman's IQ Score?

Landman has an IQ Score of 142/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 36/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 31/50 Educational Value, and 41/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Landman educational?

Landman is moderate on educational value, 31/50 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/.

Landman IQ Score 142/200

Landman has an IQ Score of 142/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-19·Methodology

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142/ 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: 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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The Verdict

Best forViewers hungry for drilling economics, lease fights, and West Texas labor treated as the drama

Skip ifYou prefer the fossil-fuel-as-villain framing; this sits inside the industry instead

Use it asAn industry procedural that shows how oil money actually moves, monologue by monologue

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

2,605 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Taylor Sheridan's 2024 Paramount+ series anchored by Billy Bob Thornton as a West Texas oil-industry crisis manager. The structural commitment to letting industry-specific knowledge (drilling economics, lease negotiations, cartel-adjacent labor systems) be the show's actual subject is what separates it from prestige TV's usual fossil-fuel-as-corruption framing.

Demi Moore as the oil-executive widow does the harder work the genre rarely supports.

People & Production Taylor Sheridan · Paramount+ · United States 14 connections