What is Where'd You Go, Bernadette's IQ Score?

Where'd You Go, Bernadette has an IQ Score of 112/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 30/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 26/50 Educational Value, and 28/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Where'd You Go, Bernadette educational?

Where'd You Go, Bernadette is moderate on educational value, 26/50 on TVI's rubric. Some learning happens, but it isn't the show's primary work.

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/.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette , IQ Score 112/200

Where'd You Go, Bernadette has an IQ Score of 112/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-08·Methodology

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112/ 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, v1.2

Formula

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

Database scale

2,350 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Richard Linklater →

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The TVI Take

Linklater's 2019 adaptation of the Maria Semple epistolary novel. Cate Blanchett as a reclusive architect in Seattle whose disappearance prompts her teenage daughter's search.

Blanchett is fully committed, but the novel's letter-driven structure resists adaptation and the film never finds its register. The architectural backstory and the mid-life creative-block argument are stronger than the surrounding drama. Modest cognitive engagement; the source novel does the same material better.

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