Find a friend with HBO and be sure to watch All the Way, a new political drama that remembers the first year of Lyndon Johnson’s accidental presidency and his unlikely passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Robert Schenkkan has adapted his critically acclaimed Broadway play for television (it left the stage in 2014) and Bryan Cranston returns to play LBJ with the same great Tony Award-winning ferocity that he boasted on Broadway.

If Hollywood names and accolades don’t earn your vote, consider going “All the Way” with LBJ as just the drama for an anxious electoral season. Perhaps the nation is now only ‘mildly concerned,’ compared to the grief it experienced after President Kennedy’s horrific assassination. Ninety-eight minutes after the confirmation of his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson, aboard Air Force One, was sworn in to assume an awful responsibility. “All I have, I would have given gladly, not to be standing here today,” he said in his first address as president. But as Cranston proves, he was just the man to (respectfully) tell a grieving nation to move on, to move forward.