The Tinder Swindler IQ Score 128/200
The Tinder Swindler has an IQ Score of 128/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.
Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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- Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
- Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
- Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.
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The TVI Take
Felicity Morris's 2022 Netflix documentary about Simon Leviev, an Israeli con artist who used Tinder to defraud women across Europe. The structural commitment, letting the victims tell the story of their own deception without judgmental framing, is what separates it from the standard online-romance-scam treatment.
Anthropologically serious work about how modern dating-app architecture creates the conditions for the con.
People & Production Felicity Morris · Raw TV · United Kingdom 5 connections
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The Trailer
Official trailer, embedded from YouTube.
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Critics rate it well above audiences here, a 26-point gap. A notable split like this usually flags something worth knowing going in: a divisive ending, a polarizing style, or controversial material. This is outside context from IMDb and Metacritic, not part of the TVI Score, which measures cognitive value on our own published methodology.
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The Tinder Swindler scored 128/200 (Competent tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/the-tinder-swindler/
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