Great Performances: Season 13
Season 13 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Great Performances Season 12.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 13 Progress Shield
The Importance of Being Ernest
Nov 29, 1985
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Heartbreak House
Apr 24, 1985 · 122 min
Re-creation of the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's 1920 comedy of manners. The troubles of England are parallel with the domestic troubles of Captain Shotover's househ
Grown-Ups
Nov 25, 1986 · 60 min
A middle-aged journalist has, at last, grown up - only to find he's trapped in a world of emotional infants.