Pushing Daisies , IQ Score 160/200
Pushing Daisies has an IQ Score of 160/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Bryan Fuller's 2007-09 ABC fantasy-procedural about a pie-maker (Lee Pace) who can resurrect the dead with a single touch, but only for one minute. The structural commitment to letting the Amelie-coded visual register (saturated colors, dollhouse-aesthetic production design, fairy-tale narration) operate inside a network procedural was canonical mid-2000s formal experiment.
Cancelled by writers' strike; subsequently canonized as one of the era's most-formally-distinctive shows.
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