Genius
Genius: Season 1
Season 2

Air Date

April 25, 2017

Episodes

10 episodes

Genius

Season 1

Overview

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

Chapter One

1. Chapter One

7.6
April 25, 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.

Chapter Two

2. Chapter Two

7.5
May 2, 2017
51 min

After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.

Chapter Three

3. Chapter Three

7.2
May 9, 2017
51 min

Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.

Chapter Four

4. Chapter Four

7.3
May 16, 2017
51 min

Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.

Chapter Five

5. Chapter Five

7.0
May 23, 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.

Chapter Six

6. Chapter Six

6.9
May 30, 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.

Chapter Seven

7. Chapter Seven

7.1
June 6, 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.

Chapter Eight

8. Chapter Eight

7.8
June 13, 2017
51 min

Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.

Chapter Nine

9. Chapter Nine

8.0
June 20, 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.

Chapter Ten

10. Chapter Ten

8.6
June 27, 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.