The Remains of the Day has an IQ Score of 166/200 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
James Ivory's 1993 Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation anchored by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson (both Oscar-nominated). The structural commitment to letting English-class-and-domestic-service cultural cognitive material be the actual subject, and Hopkins's contained-emotional-restraint performance as the head butler Stevens, established the canonical Merchant-Ivory late-period entry.
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