Game of Thrones

Sunday at 9 p.m., HBO

Last Sunday’s episode arrived like a reward, after a trio of episodes that served primarily to bring us up to speed and to dispense, finally, with the Jon Snow question. Two of the greatest things: 1) Daenerys’s victory was cathartic. The Dothraki warlords who ridiculed and threatened her were all gone in a flash that ignited the sacred meeting hall, the scene, the episode, and the season. The moment was, like the time she ate a stallion’s heart, and like the time she walked into Khal Drogo’s funeral pyre and birthed her three dragons, the kind of incendiary Dany triumph that leaves her loyal fans ecstatic. 2) The reunion between Sansa Stark and Jon Snow at Castle Black was an emotional high point. On a show that’s largely about killing, torturing, and betraying, watching these half-siblings (we think) stumble upon each other was lovely.

Preacher

Sunday at 10 p.m., AMC

If you’re a fan of “Preacher,’’ the 1990s cult comic series, or if you’ve never even heard of it, you might want to try AMC’s energetic and twisted new TV adaptation. About a preacher (Dominic Cooper) who becomes inhabited by an intergalactic being that gives him special powers, it’s an unusual piece of work that has real promise, not least of all because it is so unusual. “Preacher’’ is a western, but it’s not. It’s violent, but the violence is suffused with humor. It’s supernatural, but grounded in character. It’s dramatic and filled with questions of faith and sin, but it’s never morally simplistic like so many other comic adaptations. It’s unique, but it’s hard to imagine it existing in such a visually striking form without the stylistic influence of Quentin Tarantino. You’ll like it, if you don’t hate it.

Doctor Thorne

Streaming on Amazon

Paging all classy folks, and Anglophiles in particular. You’re probably going to be busy saying goodbye for good to Kenneth Branagh’s “Wallander’’ Sunday night at 9 on WGBH 2, as the detective deals with dementia. But perhaps you’ll find time this week for a new adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s “Dr. Thorne.’’ Perhaps you’ll be even more apt to find time once you know that it was written and executive produced by Julian Fellowes, the man who gave us “Downton Abbey.’’ I haven’t seen “Doctor Thorne,’’ which aired in the UK in March but was acquired earlier this month by Amazon. But I am a big fan of Trollope, and I still remember fondly the fine “Masterpiece’’ adaptation of his “The Way We Live Now.’’ “Doctor Thorne’’ is the story of poor young Mary Thorne. Frank Gresham falls for her, but his family would prefer he marry the wealthy American Martha Dunstable, played by Alison Brie from “Community’’ and “Mad Men.’’ (Pictured: STEFANIE MARTINI as Mary Thorne and HARRY RICHARDSON as Frank Gresham.)

All the Way

Multiple airings this week, HBO

It feels like you’re witnessing a miracle, watching Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon B. Johnson, just as it did watching Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in “Lincoln.’’ There you are in a room with the 36th president, up close to his weary, furrowed face, sharing all the weighty private hours that filled in between those vintage 1960s news clips and historical milestones. You stand right by the man in his weaker moments, when he’s afraid he’s just an “accidental president’’ after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and you’re there in his more commanding moods, too, as he craftily pushes through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, navigating between impatient black activists and livid Southern segregationists. Once LBJ succeeds in passing the law, “All the Way’’ loses momentum. But Cranston’s performance remains engaging, as Johnson fights his way out of Kennedy’s shadow and into his own presidential light.

MATTHEW GILBERT