What is Ozark's IQ Score?

Ozark has an IQ Score of 144/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 41/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 27/50 Educational Value, and 41/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Ozark educational?

Ozark is moderate on educational value, 27/50 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/.

Ozark IQ Score 144/200

Ozark has an IQ Score of 144/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-10-05·Methodology

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144/ 200

Stimulating

Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

Score Breakdown

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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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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

2,608 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

A money laundering operation in the Missouri Ozarks becomes increasingly complex as the Byrde family embeds deeper into criminal enterprise. Cognitive engagement from the puzzle-box plotting of financial schemes and escalating stakes.

Educational elements about money laundering mechanics and cartel operations. Entertainment from watching an ordinary family become ruthless.

People & Production Bill Dubuque · Jason Bateman · MRC 19 connections

Direction & creation

Director

Jason Bateman

Creator

Bill Dubuque

Producer

Jason Bateman Mark Williams Bill Dubuque Chris Mundy

On screen & sound

Selected cast

Jason Bateman Laura Linney Julia Garner Michael Mosley Jordana Spiro Jason Butler HarnerSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.

Production & release

Production company

Original broadcaster

Distributor

Country of origin

Original language

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The Trailer

Official trailer, embedded from YouTube.

Characters Scored Here

People search for these characters by name. TVI doesn't invent fictional-character IQ numbers, but Ozark's score is the honest answer to how seriously the work treats each mind.

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