If you haven’t been watching the National Geographic series ‘Genius,’ then you’ve been missing out on the life story of one of the greatest minds in history: Albert Einstein. Tonight marks the finale of Season 1 and even if you haven’t been following the show, you will still be able to enjoy this entertaining and riveting 2 hour final episode. ‘Genius,’ then you’ve been missing out on the life story of one of the greatest minds in history: Albert Einstein. Tonight marks the finale of Season 1 and even if you haven’t been following the show, you will still be able to enjoy this entertaining and riveting 2 hour final episode.
These last two hours are what most people know about Einstein but there is more to his legacy than his famed theory of relativity, his incredible intelligence, and his involvement in developing the atomic bomb. What you’ll see in these final two hours is Einstein’s humanity, his all too human side as he struggles in a world that was on a threshold of new ideas good and evil. And even until the end, Einstein continued to work on calculations.
Tonight’s episode will span the last 20 years of his life as he witnesses the end of World War 2 and the beginning of the Cold War. It will shine on the FBI’s obsession over the scientist and who they kept a secret dossier with more than 1,400 pages of notes about his “radical” behavior, the moment when he finally becomes a U.S. citizen and engages in American politics, and the historical facts many of us know about his public life.
Einstein’s mind never stopped working. Even as he aged and his mental acuity was not as sharp as in his younger years, Einstein still obsessed with trying to reconcile his principles of relativity with the theoretical world of quantum mechanics. To this day, it is a concept that even now physicists are still struggling to accomplish.
But through it all, it is his personal life and legacy that resonates. It is the questions asked as the final scene ends that we are left to ponder all the wonders Einstein opened in the world of science. And in the end, ‘Genius,’ the series seemed to accomplished what it set out to do.
The series finale of ‘Genius’ airs tonight, Tuesday, June 20, at 9pm on the National Geographic Channel.
