What is The Season's IQ Score?

The Season has an IQ Score of 106/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 27/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 21/50 Educational Value, and 33/50 Craft & Quality.

Is The Season educational?

The Season is low on educational value, 21/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

The Season , IQ Score 106/200

Name: The Season
Genre: drama
Rating: 106

The Season has an IQ Score of 106/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-15·Methodology

drama

106/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

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

2,365 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Yalun Tu's six-part Hulu drama drops Jessie Mei Li's outsider into Hong Kong's ultra-exclusive boating season, an English-language Crazy Rich Asians-meets-White Lotus study of wealth and belonging from SK Global. It reached 80 percent on the strength of its setting and cast, though critics noted the exposition-heavy writing keeps the class satire frothy rather than biting, a one-night binge that pleases more than it cuts.

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