Genius — Season 1
Martin Luther King Jr / Malcolm X. Two minds, one movement.
About this season
Season one charts how Albert Einstein—an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe. Based on Walter Isaacson’s critically acclaimed book “Einstein: His Life and Universe.”
Episodes (10)
1. Chapter One
7.7Aired 25 April 2017 • 65 min
The story of Albert Einstein, seen through glimpses of his twilight years and flashbacks to his time as a student in Munich and Zürich in the 1890s.
2. Chapter Two
7.8Aired 2 May 2017 • 51 min
After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.
3. Chapter Three
7.6Aired 9 May 2017 • 51 min
Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.
4. Chapter Four
7.7Aired 16 May 2017 • 51 min
Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.
5. Chapter Five
7.4Aired 23 May 2017 • 51 min
Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.
6. Chapter Six
7.6Aired 30 May 2017 • 51 min
Einstein moves his family for work, and to be closer to his new love, Elsa. He sets out to prove his theory as his marriage reaches a breaking point.
7. Chapter Seven
6.8Aired 6 June 2017 • 51 min
In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
8. Chapter Eight
7.8Aired 13 June 2017 • 51 min
Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.
9. Chapter Nine
8.3Aired 20 June 2017 • 52 min
Albert Einstein settles into life in America, but dangers abroad continue to be a threat to both him and his former colleagues.
10. Chapter Ten
8.4Aired 27 June 2017 • 55 min
After the atomic bomb is dropped and World War II draws to a close, Einstein assumes the role of world citizen in his twilight years.