What is Monk's IQ Score?

Monk has an IQ Score of 105/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 30/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 6/50 Educational Value, and 49/50 Craft & Quality.

Monk is low on educational value, 6/50 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/.

Monk , IQ Score 105/200

Monk has an IQ Score of 105/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-23·Methodology

crime proceduralcomedy

105/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

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 forMystery fans who want a gentle procedural where the detective's condition is treated with care

Skip ifYou want cases that genuinely stump you; the puzzles are light and the formula is fixed

Use it asA comfort procedural built on Shalhoub's performance rather than plot complexity

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

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The TVI Take

Andy Breckman's USA Network procedural anchored by Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, a San Francisco detective whose OCD-and-phobia condition is both his investigative method and his social-functional limitation. The structural commitment to letting mental-illness specificity be the protagonist's actual subject, rendered with empathy rather than as comic deficit, is what separates the property from network procedural standard practice.

Shalhoub won three Outstanding Lead Actor Emmys.

The Trailer