What is Trying's IQ Score?

Trying has an IQ Score of 136/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 29/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 35/50 Educational Value, and 41/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Trying educational?

Trying is strong on educational value, 35/50 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 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/.

Trying , IQ Score 136/200

Trying has an IQ Score of 136/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

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

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136/ 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

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

Andy Wolton's Apple TV+ comedy about Nikki and Jason closes its run by trading the adoption-anxiety engine of the early seasons for the harder question of who a family becomes once the crisis passes. The show earns its cognitive credit through emotional reasoning rather than plot: it stages the small negotiations of parenting and marriage with unusual precision, and Esther Smith and Rafe Spall play ambivalence without ever signaling it for the audience.

Warmth is the craft here, not the decoration.

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