What is Patience's IQ Score?

Patience has an IQ Score of 131/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 33/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 31/50 Educational Value, and 35/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Patience educational?

Patience 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/.

Patience IQ Score 131/200

Patience has an IQ Score of 131/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-28·Methodology

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131/ 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: 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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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

2,590 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Adapted from the French series Astrid, the York-set procedural pairs a brilliant autistic analyst from the Criminal Records Office with a detective who learns to work with rather than around her. The series is most distinct in its careful, non-pitying portrayal of autism, which carries genuine social-awareness value, and least so in cold cases that follow familiar procedural shapes.

The score reflects that split: the central relationship and the representation do the lifting that the mysteries themselves do not.

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