Nat Geo's Genius: Picasso is cliche-ridden and too similar to Genius: Einstein

The Hollywood Reporter

The second installment of Nat Geo's Genius series suffers from having another male European "Genius" who is roughly the same age as the previous "Genius." "The creative stumbles from Einstein to Picasso aren't about them both being European men," says Daniel Fienberg, "but rather their both being European men born at basically the same time (1879 for Einstein and 1881 for Picasso) and thus experiencing many of the same shifts in culture and social mores and thus facing comparable threats from fascism at the same phases of their personal lives and indulging in many of the same appetites and personal failings." Genius: Picasso, he says, is "almost non-stop hackneyed dialogue about the nature of art," adding: "Almost all of the dialogue in Genius: Picasso is comparably exaggerated and cringe-inducing."

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