A good, informative Einstein biopic though could have used more science and less schmaltz

For better or worse the National Geographic 10-part series on the life of Einstein, Genius, seems to be wrestling w/ its identity throughout: Is it a biopic? Or a Hallmark movie? By the end, it's a little bit of both; personally, I would have liked a more faithful adherence to the facts, details, and most of all ideas (and ideals) of Einstein's life. But I also have to say that the series does a great job in examining Einstein's personality, without undue hagiography: We see his intellectual genius of course and see his thoughts emerging through the early years of disgrace and disappointment (still incredible that he could not get a university job and wrote his breakthrough papers on relativity while he was a clerk in the patent office!), his struggles against anti-Semitism particularly in German but also in the scientific community at large, and mostly his troubled relationships with family, with women, and esp w/ his first wife. Clearly, E was not a genius when it came to relationships, though he does get some good lines when he tries to reconcile with his first wife, Malleva. In the 2nd half of the series, his struggle to get visas to travel to the U.S. is the highlight, as well as his wrestling w/ his lifelong commitment to pacifism v the need to annihilate the Axis powers - and of course his struggle w/ the idea that the atomic bomb is the practical application of his theoretical research. There's some good scenes about the corruption of German science during the war - and about the race between Germany and US to develop the a-bomb. Some things are left unclear, however, in particular the Moe Berg spy episode and the plot to kill Heisenberg (seemed out of "left field," and not really part of the E bio but too good to pass up). I also suspect E's role in persuading an American official to issue thousands of visas to German Jews may have been overstated. Unfortunately, in the final episodes the mood becomes rather sappy as E reconciles to an extent w/ his children and befriends a 10-year-old girl who has lots of questions about science; is this based on any real incidents? Doubtful. I would have liked more on the Russian spy who become his mistress for a time - how much did she learn from the old man? Was her truly never suspicious of her motives? And I'd have liked more explanation of his theories - in other words, more science, less schmaltz - and the series could have given us some updates on the lives of the main characters post 1955 (E's death). All that said, it's an entertaining series and gives a good outline of the contours and detours of E's life.