Genius: Season 2

Nooo, you're not Dora, you're Mileva!

What a boring Picasso. Compared to the first season, it's heaven and earth. All that I remember from his genius is that, as far as I understood correctly, he created surrealism and was forever painting. And basically what happens in the series is just relationships with new passions, then new relationships, then more. It was much more interesting to watch about Einstein.

That feeling when I went to read the comments, but there were none.

Jumping back and forth in time does not look very great, makes the narrative too chaotic, intermittent and does not allow you to focus on a specific time epoch, as it was in the first season. It is a very controversial decision to change the style of telling the story, in the cut-into-fragments version it does not create a sense of living life, as it was with Einstein throughout most of the series. The only thing that is shown well in this way is the contrast of the epochs. The pre-Hitler world and the world of military chaos create a different range of public moods, and the artist living in them somehow reflects the current reality.

But otherwise everything is fine, Banderas plays Picasso perfectly, so far without heavy extravagances, but with oddities in his personal life. It is especially interesting to listen to critical opinions and accusations of imitations, knowing what kind of Picasso will become an art genius.

At first, it seemed to me that the second season was worse than the first, but then it expanded to the desired height. A very high-quality, strong, promising series that has practically no analogues now. I look forward to the third season with incredible enthusiasm, my head is spinning when I try to imagine the story of Mary Shelley, not only outstanding in itself, but also in a talented presentation.