After 10 minutes or so in the first of this series one is struck not by much of anything a young or adult Einstein has to say but the way in which Ron Howard the director is choosing to say it. It's just freaking exhausting watching the relentless swooping of the camera to record simple conversations, the cuts every moment or 2 to take in Howard's determination to prove he can show light flares, floating dust, shadows in lecture halls, characters looking at each other. Edit, edit, cut, pan, cut, and repeat, every damn scene. When the viewer is on edge waiting to see how else Howard will f up a story he's trying to tell that's not good.
Review of Einstein: Chapter One
