What is Night Stalker's IQ Score?

Night Stalker has an IQ Score of 127/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 40/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 12/50 Educational Value, and 46/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Night Stalker educational?

Night Stalker is low on educational value, 12/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Night Stalker , IQ Score 127/200

Night Stalker has an IQ Score of 127/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-13·Methodology

documentarytrue crime

127/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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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, v1.2

Formula

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

Database scale

2,330 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Netflix's 2021 four-part documentary about Richard Ramirez, the mid-1980s Los Angeles serial killer. The structural commitment to centering Detective Gil Carrillo's investigative work, and his racial-profiling resistance from older detectives, is what separates it from standard serial-killer documentary practice.

Anthropologically serious work about how mid-'80s LAPD investigative culture operated.

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