6.3/109 votesLoading...#1 - Chapter Eight
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/5/2018
Pablo meets his first wife, a ballerina, while designing a ballet. Older Picasso struggles to manage his complex family.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/1010 votesLoading...#2 - Chapter Two
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2018
Picasso's relationship with Dora Maar is strained by war. Young Pablo succeeds by imitating the masters, but struggles to be original.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1011 votesLoading...#3 - Chapter One
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/24/2018
Pablo Picasso confronts the threat of fascism in Spain, and Young Pablo rejects traditional painting to search for his own voice.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/108 votesLoading...#4 - Chapter Five
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/15/2018
Picasso tries to convince Françoise to move in with him, while Young Pablo is challenged by the radical genius of Matisse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1010 votesLoading...#5 - Chapter Six
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/30/2017
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/108 votesLoading...#6 - Chapter Nine
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/12/2018
Younger Picasso finds respite from his strained marriage with Olga in the arms of his newest muse: Marie-Thérèse Walter. However, their romance is short-lived, cause soon he crosses paths with Dora Maar. Meanwhile, Françoise Gilot defies Older Picasso and pursues her artistic goals.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1010 votesLoading...#7 - Chapter Five
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/23/2017
Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.
Director: N/A
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7.0/108 votesLoading...#8 - Chapter Four
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/8/2018
As older Picasso juggles two love affairs, Young Pablo strives to create a masterpiece that will signal his arrival as a great artist.
Director: N/A
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7.0/108 votesLoading...#9 - Chapter Seven
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/29/2018
After WWII, Picasso joins the Communist Party but struggles to align his artwork with his own political beliefs. Affected by a tragic love affair from his past, Picasso falters in his responsibilities to Françoise.
Director: N/A
Writer: Wendy Riss
7.0/103 votesLoading...#10 - Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/21/2021
Struggling to find her sound, Aretha catches the attention of Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records in 1966. Meanwhile, Little Re has her first touring experience on the Gospel Circuit in 1954 with C.L. Franklin and meets her idol, Clara Ward.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/103 votesLoading...#11 - Unforgettable
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/2021
Aretha is featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 1968, but she’s devastated when the article focuses on the scandalous details of her personal life. Barbara Franklin and Young C.L. Franklin struggle to establish themselves in Memphis in 1941, before Little Re is born.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/109 votesLoading...#12 - Chapter Seven
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/6/2017
In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/108 votesLoading...#13 - Chapter Six
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/22/2018
Picasso takes Françoise Gilot on vacation. Young Pablo starts cubism with Georges Braque, but is accused of stealing the Mona Lisa.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1011 votesLoading...#14 - Chapter Three
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/9/2017
Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1011 votesLoading...#15 - Chapter Four
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/16/2017
Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/109 votesLoading...#16 - Chapter Three
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2018
Picasso meets his great love Franoise Gilot. Young Pablo begins his Blue Period after the suicide of his friend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/103 votesLoading...#17 - Do Right Woman
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/22/2021
Aretha juggles her music career and her commitment to the civil rights movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr., in 1967 and 1968. Meanwhile, Little Re leaves behind her newborn child to return to the Gospel Circuit in 1955, meeting with music legends James Cleveland and Little Sammie Bryant.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/103 votesLoading...#18 - Young, Gifted and Black
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2021
Aretha, inspired by Angela Davis and the Soledad Brothers, records her protest album “Young, Gifted and Black” in 1970. Despite Jerry Wexler’s uncertainty, the album is a success. Barbara Franklin makes a decision that has a devastating effect on Little Re in 1951.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/103 votesLoading...#19 - Amazing Grace
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/23/2021
Aretha records her best-selling live Gospel album “Amazing Grace” in 1972 at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, ignoring her sibling’s pleas to record instead at New Bethel with their father, C.L. Franklin.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1015 votesLoading...#20 - Chapter One
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/25/2017
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1013 votesLoading...#21 - Chapter Two
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/2/2017
After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votesLoading...#22 - Matriarchs
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2024
With Martin unjustly jailed, Coretta must call upon all her strength to keep pushing forward. When an opportunity to help Martin comes up, she takes it, despite pushback from Daddy King. With Malcolm refusing to listen to her needs, Betty takes drastic action to try to save her marriage. A reminder of her past, and a vision for her future, show her the way through.
Director: Crystle Roberson
Writer: Sigrid Gilmer
7.7/103 votesLoading...#23 - Chain of Fools
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/24/2021
As the Queen of Soul enters the age of disco, Aretha will do anything to remain relevant—including stealing an opportunity from her sister Carolyn. She receives a GRAMMY nomination but is ultimately snubbed from winning the award.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/108 votesLoading...#24 - Chapter Eight
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/13/2017
Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/104 votesLoading...#25 - Respect
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/21/2021
Desperate for a hit, Aretha travels to Muscle Shoals in 1967 to record her first album with Atlantic Records. After suffering the loss of her surrogate mother, Little Re braves her first solo in 1953, in her father’s, C.L. Franklin, church.
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Genius
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The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws...
Genre:Drama
Network:National Geographic
Worst Episodes Summary
"Chapter Eight" is the worst rated episode of "Genius". It scored 6.3/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/5/2018. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Chapter Two".