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By Robert Rorke

Genius

Tuesday, 9 p.m, National Geographic

Johnny Flynn walks into the lobby lounge of the Mandarin Oriental carrying a guitar case, his uncombed blond hair and blue eyes a stark contrast to the way he looks as the young Albert Einstein in “Genius.” Flynn’s hair was dyed and he hid his baby blues behind brown contact lenses for the show. He also had some help from the makeup department in making his small nose look more like the physicist’s famous schnozz. Obviously, director Ron Howard could have hired someone who didn’t need so much cosmetic camouflage, and Flynn, 34, tells The Post he nearly didn’t go up for the role because he thought “they can’t make me look like Einstein.” When he’s not touring with his band, Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit, he lives in London with his wife, set designer Beatrice Minns (“Sleep No More”), and their son and daughter.

Do you wear contact lenses?
No, I don’t. They are really irritating the first week or two. Because they’re brown, you start to see around the edges in sepia.

Was it difficult to learn all the mathematical and scientific terminology?
I learned the equations almost phonetically. Then I went to a physics professor to learn the actual meaning [of them], otherwise it would have sounded flat. By the end I sort of knew what I was talking about. I could hold [them] in my mind for the half day that we would shoot the scene.

Einstein has a couple of women chasing after him. Who knew he was such a player?
The newspaper headlines about him would look pretty bad in terms of his relationships with women, but we get to explain it, not necessarily justify it. What’s great [in Episode 2] is that we get to tell Mileva Maric’s (Samantha Colley) story because nobody really knows who she is. And she’s the most important person in his life. One of the key figures for his early breakthroughs. She was the only female physicist in his college class.

Where did you go to drama school?
It was called the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. I was at college with Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) and Tom Mison (“Sleepy Hollow”). I was a year below them.

You make your living mostly as a musician. What do you play?
People describe it as folk music or folk rock. I’m a big Bob Dylan fan. I’m also a blues geek. My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It’s very loud. It’s the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played. I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

And here’s what else to watch this week:

The Handmaid’s Tale

Wednesday, 12 p.m., Hulu
Punished by Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) after failing to conceive, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) begins to unravel and reflects on her time with Moira (Samara Wiley) at the Red Center. Meanwhile, a complication during the Ceremony threatens Offred’s survival with Serena Joy and the Commander (Joseph Fiennes).

Guerrilla

Sunday, 9 p.m., Showtime
The gang moves to a secret countryside location. Jas (Freida Pinto) is inspired by Canadian radical Eliette (Bella Dayne), but the strain of being on the run takes its toll on her relationship with Marcus (Babou Ceesay). In London, Pence (Rory Kinnear) turns to Kenya (Wunmi Mosaku) for help as the gang becomes more notorious, and a rival force tries to circumvent his authority.

Chicago Justice

Sunday, 9 p.m., NBC
An anti-environmentalist alderman is killed during a vicious hit-and-run. Antonio (Jon Seda, below right) and Nagel (Joelle Carter, below left) go all out to track down the driver, who turns out to be a frantic mother desperate to save her supposedly kidnapped daughter. With Philip Winchester.

Superstore

Thursday, 8:30 p.m., NBC
Season finale. Glenn (Mark McKinney) decides which employees to lay off. Jonah (Ben Feldman) struggles with the fallout of an admission he made to Amy (America Ferrera). Meanwhile, a tornado warning goes into effect, forcing the staff into uncomfortable pairings.

Lucifer

Monday, 9 p.m., Fox
Two weeks after Chloe’s (Lauren German) near-death experience, Lucifer (Tom Ellis, inset) has gone off the grid, cutting off all contact with his family and the police department. He materializes just in time to help solve a murder and introduces the department to the new woman in his life, a ditzy stripper named Candy Morningstar (Lindsey Gort). While Lucifer’s mom (Tricia Helfer) desperately tries to contact her son, Chloe tries to push him away.

NCIS

Tuesday, 8 p.m., CBS
After a Marine Sergeant is found murdered in a National Park, Gibbs (Mark Harmon, below left), and the NCIS team partner with Mounted Police Sergeant May Dawson (Elisabeth Röhm, below right) to solve a string of related crimes.

Silicon Valley

Sunday, 10 p.m., HBO
Richard (Thomas Middleditch) butts heads with Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani), whose new position goes to his head. Meanwhile, Erlich (T.J. Miller) makes a play to be involved in Jian-Yang’s (Jimmy O. Yang) new app; Jared (Zach Woods) sets ground rules in his friendship with Richard, and Gavin’s (Matt Ross) paranoia over Jack’s (Stephen Tobolowsky) enthusiasm causes him to make a rash decision.

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