Staying in? Ellen Gray's TV picks

* THE NORMAL HEART. 9 p.m. Sunday, HBO.

Once you get past the famous faces - Mark Ruffalo, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons and, of course Julia Roberts - you're left with playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer's tough, Tony-winning story of a war that couldn't be fought, much less won, until the world beyond its early victims agreed that the enemy existed.

* MAD MEN. 10 p.m. Sunday, AMC.

After this midseason capper, you'll have to wait until 2015 to see if the final seven episodes fulfill whatever theory you subscribe to about where all this is taking us.

* THE WORLD WARS. 9 p.m. Monday, History.

In the first installment of this three-night event, premiering on Memorial Day, World War I is shown setting the stage for its successor, with a where-were-they-then look at figures like George Patton and Adolf Hitler (shown in a re-creation shaving his mustache to accommodate his gas mask).

* BOMB GIRLS: FACING THE ENEMY. 9 p.m. Monday, Reelz.

The Canadian period drama about women working in a munitions factory during World War II was canceled after two seasons. But it gets an eventful sendoff in this two-hour movie that stands on its own (and might appeal particularly to fans of PBS' "The Bletchley Circle.") Want to see what happened before this? The show's available for streaming on Netflix.