Show of the week: Game of Thrones

HBO’s acclaimed fantasy series returns for a third season with promising material to harvest: the rousing third book in George R.R. Martin’s fictional saga about clashing royal clans. In Episode 1, winter has finally arrived in Westeros as Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) tries to raise a slave army and reclaim family glory. Many new characters will make their screen debuts this season, including a foreign king (Ciarán Hinds) who meets Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in a big showdown—after things heat up between Snow and a Wildling (Rose Leslie). Sunday, March 31, at 9 p.m., HBO

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