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Ellen Gray's weekend TV picks

This week, she features "Mad Men"; "Game of Thrones" and more.

Elisabeth Moss and Jon Hamm of "Mad Men."
Elisabeth Moss and Jon Hamm of "Mad Men."Read more

* MAD MEN. 10 p.m. Sunday, AMC.

As TV's most stylish - and secretive - melodrama enters the first half of its seventh and final season, there's absolutely nothing I'm supposed to tell you about what's going on. I mean Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Don (Jon Hamm) are still in it, but even this picture's potentially deceptive. So keep your eyes and ears open.

* THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE. 10 p.m. Sunday, WHYY12.

Season 2 of this 1950s mystery series opens with the former World War II code breakers setting out to prove a former colleague not guilty of a murder she insists she committed - and for which she's willing to hang. Not a fan yet? You will be.

* YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. 10 p.m. Sunday, Showtime.

Can celebrities deliver the message about climate change in a way that makes a difference? The first episode of this well-intentioned series, with Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle and Arnold Schwarzenegger talking drought, isn't likely to win over the science-resistant, but there's plenty of inconvenient truth here for those open to it.

* GAME OF THRONES. 9 p.m. Sunday, HBO.

Watch this one in real time or risk spoilers everywhere you go on Monday.

* NURSE JACKIE. 9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime.

Season 6 finds Jackie (Edie Falco) popping pills again - and attending NA meetings. No one ever really changes on this show, but I'm beginning to wonder if I even want them to.