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* BreakingOldTrends: Unlike the previous three seasons, this one follows ''two'' titular historical figures.

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* BreakingOldTrends: Unlike the previous three seasons, this one follows ''two'' titular historical figures.figures.
* DoNotCallMePaul: The newly christened Martin Luther King, Sr. has this mentality about his and his son's original names, which doesn't please his family one bit.
* IronicEchoCut: We cut from a child Malcolm at a meeting where the people chant about how black people are forever bound to and truly of Africa to a child Martin (Michael at the time) at church hearing a sermon about how black American belong in the United States and shouldn't "go back to Africa".
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* BaitTheDog: Malcolm is elected class president in his youth and is praised by his teacher for it, but is then laughed at by the class for expressing an ambition to be a lawyer and instructed to be a day laborer by his teacher, who makes sure to say it's where "his kind" belong.
* BreakingOldTrends: Unlike the previous three seasons, this one follows ''two'' titular historical figures.
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-->"How many women has he painted?"

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-->"How many women has he painted?"painted?"

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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, played by Creator/CynthiaErivo; premiering in March 2021, new episodes of the show arrived on Creator/{{Hulu}} a day after their cable premiere. A fourth season, announced before the third aired, will be about UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr; that season will be exclusive to Creator/DisneyPlus.

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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, played by Creator/CynthiaErivo; premiering in March 2021, new episodes of the show arrived on Creator/{{Hulu}} a day after their cable premiere. A fourth season, announced before the third aired, will be about UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr; UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr and UsefulNotes/MalcolmX; that season will be exclusive to Creator/DisneyPlus.
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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; that season will be exclusive to Creator/DisneyPlus.

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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.Music/ArethaFranklin, played by Creator/CynthiaErivo; premiering in March 2021, new episodes of the show arrived on Creator/{{Hulu}} a day after their cable premiere. A fourth season, announced before the third aired, will be about UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr; that season will be exclusive to Creator/DisneyPlus.

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