After the somewhat perfunctory opening episode of Season 3, Game of Thrones is really cooking again with ‘Dark Wings, Dark Words’. Checking in with the characters absent from last week, we get a more enthralling and exciting instalment.

Game of Thrones makes a triumphant, if somewhat subdued, return to UK screens tomorrow night for a third season.

While it’s a joy to be back in Westeros with the characters we’ve come to love (and love to hate), ‘Valar Dohaeris’ is very much an establishing episode. The fall-out from the great battle of Blackwater Bay continues, and everyone in the land, from Jon north of The Wall to Dany across the sea, must adjust to their new circumstances.