What is The Best of Youth's IQ Score?

The Best of Youth has an IQ Score of 187/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 48/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 44/50 Educational Value, and 49/50 Craft & Quality.

Is The Best of Youth educational?

The Best of Youth is strong on educational value, 44/50 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/.

The Best of Youth , IQ Score 187/200

The Best of Youth has an IQ Score of 187/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-17·Methodology

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187/ 200

Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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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

2,338 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Marco Tullio Giordana's six-hour epic follows two brothers from 1966 to 2003, threading Italian history through one Roman family: the 1968 student protests, Franco Basaglia's psychiatric reform, Red Brigades terror, and the judicial wars of the 1990s. Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni anchor a narrative that earns its runtime by refusing to compress causality.

Originally produced as a four-part RAI miniseries and rereleased as two theatrical halves, the structural form is the argument: history happens to families across decades, not across acts. Cannes Un Certain Regard 2003.

Where to Watch

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