What is Showing Up's IQ Score?

Showing Up has an IQ Score of 156/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 39/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 38/50 Educational Value, and 40/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Showing Up educational?

Showing Up is strong on educational value, 38/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

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/.

Showing Up IQ Score 156/200

Showing Up has an IQ Score of 156/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-02·Methodology

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156/ 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, v1.3.1

Formula

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

Database scale

2,597 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Kelly Reichardt →

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The TVI Take

Kelly Reichardt's 2022 Portland-art-scene film anchored by Michelle Williams as a sculptor preparing for a gallery show while contending with a wounded pigeon her bohemian landlord (Hong Chau) keeps in her bathtub. The structural commitment to letting working-artist-cognition be the actual subject, the studio practice, the art-school institutional pettiness, the unspectacular cognitive labor of making work, is rare American cinema.

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