An excellent portrait of a genius in development

Finding the National Geographic 10-part series on the life of Einstein, Genius, to be far better than I'd expected, esp after a somewhat meandering first episode. By episode 2 the series settles into a chronology of AE's life, but with an inventive narrative that occasionally moves around in time (appropriate for the subject, right?) in a fluid and careful manner, in fact one of the best uses of narrative jumps in time that I can recall in any miniseries or movie. The focus is, somewhat surprisingly, on AE's personal, domestic life, particularly his difficult courtship of wife "Dolly" - like him, a gifted physics student, who gives up her own work to raise his family, take care of his eccentricities, and help him as at the least an assistant on his revolutionary papers. One of the important issues the series explores is whether she received proper credit for her work - with a comparison w/ Marie Curie, rightly credited in her partnership with her husband and their work on radium. Yes, there are some cornball scenes w/ dialog that obviously never took place and never would; yes, it's kind of funny to hear all these forced German accents; yes, it could do w/ a little more explanation of AE's various theories and ideas - but the series does give the sense of a genius in development, struggling with a range of issues, not just intellectual, but love, marriage, family, career, politics, and of course anti-Semitism. Halfway through and looking forward to next 5 episodes.