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''Genius'' is the first scripted series produced by the Creator/NationalGeographicChannel. It is an anthology series, with each season covering the life of a famous, well, genius. The first understandably features the man whose very name is synonymous with the term above all others, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, played by Creator/GeoffreyRush. A second season was approved before the first even aired, covering Creator/PabloPicasso, played by Creator/AntonioBanderas. Then a third was announced before the second aired, about Music/ArethaFranklin. A fourth season, announced before the third aired, will be about UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Marie Curie confides in Einstein that she really did have an affair with a married man as rumored, and believes monogamy is a cultural artifact that people should be able to shed if they want. He fully believes it himself in his later life.
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* DyingDream: On his deathbed, Picasso sees himself happily reunited with his various lovers and children as one big family.
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* TheCameo: Johnny Flynn, who played the young Einstein in Season 1, shows up as Alain Cuny.
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** Michael [=McElhatton=] appears as Jonas Salk, Francoise Gilot's husband after she left Picasso, after the much larger role of Phillipp Lenard in Season 1.
** Johnny Flynn, who played the young Einstein in Season 1, shows up as Alain
** Michael [=McElhatton=] appears as Jonas Salk, Francoise Gilot's husband after she left Picasso, after the much larger role of Phillipp Lenard in Season 1.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After being inspired by Henri Matisse's work, Picasso discovers he is entered in the same art contest and promptly withdraws, saying his work isn't good enough to compete yet.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After being inspired by Henri Matisse's work, Picasso discovers he is entered in the same art contest and promptly withdraws, saying his work isn't good enough to compete yet. Later, Gertrude Stein invokes it in ''both'' of them, encouraging them to keep trying to top each other and bring out their best work.
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* HotterAndSexier: National Geographic is known for producing family friendly documentaries (it's ''National Geographic'', after all). With its nudity and sexual content, ''Genius'' is decidedly ''not'' family friendly.
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!!The series as a whole contains examples of:
* NoHeroToHisValet: The series revolves around both the spectacular contributions of its subjects to humanity, and their deep personal failings as individuals.
* PeriodPiece: The show takes place in various historical eras.
* PersecutedIntellectuals: Einstein and Picasso both go against the scientific/artistic establishment, and are treated as pariahs until their true genius becomes apparent.
* NoHeroToHisValet: The series revolves around both the spectacular contributions of its subjects to humanity, and their deep personal failings as individuals.
* PeriodPiece: The show takes place in various historical eras.
* PersecutedIntellectuals: Einstein and Picasso both go against the scientific/artistic establishment, and are treated as pariahs until their true genius becomes apparent.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: Max Jacob is gently rebuffed by Picasso, in a scene that goes spectacularly well for the time period.
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* TheCameo: Johnny Flynn, who played the young Einstein in Season 1, shows up as Alain Cuny.
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Einstein's pride and inability to hold his tongue work against him in his early years -- specifically his tendency to openly challenge his professors in class comes to bite him the back, since none of them will give him a good recommendation -- not even Webber who was his greatest advocate originally.
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Einstein's pride and inability to hold his tongue work against him in his early years -- specifically his tendency to openly challenge his professors in class comes back to bite him the back, haunt him, since none of them will give him a good recommendation during his job hunt -- not even Webber who was his greatest advocate originally.
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Einstein's pride and inability to hold his tongue work against him in his early years -- specifically his tendency to openly challenge his professors in class comes to bite him the back, since none of them will give him a good recommendation -- not even Webber who was his greatest advocate originally.
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* BadassBoast: Picasso stares down a Nazi officer threatening to arrest him, saying he knows the man's own boss is a big fan and he may disappear himself after arresting the world's most famous artist. ''This really happened.''
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Carlos Casagemas suffers it at the same time he finds he can't paint anymore, ultimately driving him to suicide.
* ReallyGetsAround: Picasso was a notorious womanizer, with multiple simultaneous mistresses.
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* BadassBoast: Picasso stares down a Nazi officer threatening to arrest him, saying he knows the man's own boss is a big fan and he may disappear himself after arresting the world's most famous artist. ''This really happened.''
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Carlos Casagemas suffers it at the same time he finds he can't paint anymore, ultimately driving him to suicide.
* ReallyGetsAround: Picasso was a notorious womanizer, with multiple simultaneous mistresses.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Marie Curie confides in Einstein that she really did have an affair with a married man as rumored, and believes monogamy is a cultural artifact that people should be able to shed if they want. He fully believes it himself in his later life.
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* KissingCousins: Einstein's second wife was his first cousin Elsa.
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* KissingCousins: Einstein's second wife was his first cousin Elsa. Franklin Roosevelt, whose wife Eleanor was his fifth cousin once removed, tries to make small talk over this, but is quite surprised at just how close their relationship is and remarks on European decadence.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: A brownshirt boy at a rally that mostly consists of beating up Jewish men spots Einstein and runs after him, then holds out his Nazi flag for an autograph.
* TheDitherer: Although everyone assumes them to be engaged, Young Einstein falls out of love with Marie because of distance, her lack of interest in physics, and Mileva, but he simply leaves her letters unanswered rather than actually telling her. This leads to very hurt feelings for everyone involved.
* TheDitherer: Although everyone assumes them to be engaged, Young Einstein falls out of love with Marie because of distance, her lack of interest in physics, and Mileva, but he simply leaves her letters unanswered rather than actually telling her. This leads to very hurt feelings for everyone involved.
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* StealthInsult: Weber announces he has been pleased to "have all you ''gentlemen''" in class while standing next to Mileva's desk.
* WhatTheHellHero: Mileva is enraged when she reads the letters from Einstein's intended and believes that he's been using her. Although he really does love her, it is true that he completely distracted her from her studying, and that he completely failed to realize that as a woman she can make ''no'' mistakes if she wants to be taken seriously.
* WhatTheHellHero: Mileva is enraged when she reads the letters from Einstein's intended and believes that he's been using her. Although he really does love her, it is true that he completely distracted her from her studying, and that he completely failed to realize that as a woman she can make ''no'' mistakes if she wants to be taken seriously.
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* SequelHook: The final episode of each Each season is planned to indicate who the next season will cover.cover. In Season 1, Nazi scientist Philipp Lenard insults Pablo Picasso's work.
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* EurekaMoment: Quite a few, which are easy to portray visually thanks to Einstein's fondness for "thought experiments."
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* TheCameo: Several other "geniuses" make brief appearances. Wilhelm Roentgen's x-ray of his wife's hand spurs the jealousy and growing anti-Semitism of Philipp Lenard, Marie and Pierre Curie form a contrast to Einstein's carelessness in not acknowledging his wife Mileva's contributions to his work, and Creator/Franz Kafka briefly converses with Einstein after his move to Prague, sharing that his job makes him feel like a cockroach.
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* TheCameo: Several other "geniuses" make brief appearances. Wilhelm Roentgen's x-ray of his wife's hand spurs the jealousy and growing anti-Semitism of Philipp Lenard, Marie and Pierre Curie form a contrast to Einstein's carelessness in not acknowledging his wife Mileva's contributions to his work, and Creator/Franz Kafka Creator/FranzKafka briefly converses with Einstein after his move to Prague, sharing that his job makes him feel like a cockroach.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Einstein is very much in the "great with science, bad with people" mold, often baffled at why people react badly to his awkward social skills. In his later years, he stubbornly refuses to appreciate the true import of the growing popularity of the Nazis until it's almost too late to leave the country.
* BrilliantButLazy: Einstein's famous troubles in school are depicted as frustration at his professors' rote recitation of the accepted scientific principles of the time, refusing to listen to the possibility that they could be wrong.
* TheCameo: Several other "geniuses" make brief appearances. Wilhelm Roentgen's x-ray of his wife's hand spurs the jealousy and growing anti-Semitism of Philipp Lenard, Marie and Pierre Curie form a contrast to Einstein's carelessness in not acknowledging his wife Mileva's contributions to his work, and Creator/Franz Kafka briefly converses with Einstein after his move to Prague, sharing that his job makes him feel like a cockroach.
* KissingCousins: Einstein's second wife was his first cousin Elsa.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Elsa Einstein wooed Albert away from his first wife, and then has to deal with the belief she helped awaken in him that monogamy is pointless.
* YourCheatingHeart: Marie Curie confides in Einstein that she really did have an affair with a married man as rumored, and believes monogamy is a cultural artifact that people should be able to shed if they want. He fully believes it himself in his later life.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Einstein is very much in the "great with science, bad with people" mold, often baffled at why people react badly to his awkward social skills. In his later years, he stubbornly refuses to appreciate the true import of the growing popularity of the Nazis until it's almost too late to leave the country.
* BrilliantButLazy: Einstein's famous troubles in school are depicted as frustration at his professors' rote recitation of the accepted scientific principles of the time, refusing to listen to the possibility that they could be wrong.
* TheCameo: Several other "geniuses" make brief appearances. Wilhelm Roentgen's x-ray of his wife's hand spurs the jealousy and growing anti-Semitism of Philipp Lenard, Marie and Pierre Curie form a contrast to Einstein's carelessness in not acknowledging his wife Mileva's contributions to his work, and Creator/Franz Kafka briefly converses with Einstein after his move to Prague, sharing that his job makes him feel like a cockroach.
* KissingCousins: Einstein's second wife was his first cousin Elsa.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Elsa Einstein wooed Albert away from his first wife, and then has to deal with the belief she helped awaken in him that monogamy is pointless.
* YourCheatingHeart: Marie Curie confides in Einstein that she really did have an affair with a married man as rumored, and believes monogamy is a cultural artifact that people should be able to shed if they want. He fully believes it himself in his later life.
