Episode 1: Chapter One
2017-04-2565 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.
Season guide
Genius Season 1 — Episodes and Where to Watch
10 episodes · first aired 2017-04-25
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.”
Episode guide
Episode 2: Chapter Two
2017-05-0251 min
After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.
Episode 3: Chapter Three
2017-05-0951 min
Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.
Episode 4: Chapter Four
2017-05-1651 min
Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.
Episode 5: Chapter Five
2017-05-2351 min
Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.
Episode 6: Chapter Six
2017-05-3051 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.
Episode 7: Chapter Seven
2017-06-0651 min
In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
Episode 8: Chapter Eight
2017-06-1351 min
Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.
Episode 9: Chapter Nine
2017-06-2052 min
Albert Einstein settles into life in America, but dangers abroad continue to be a threat to both him and his former colleagues.
Episode 10: Chapter Ten
2017-06-2755 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.
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