A scene from ‘Fellow Travelers’ (via Showtime)SHOWTIME shares this first look at the upcoming gay-themed limited series Fellow Travelers starring out actors Matt Bomer (Magic Mike) and Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton).
Based on the 2007 novel of the same name from Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers is described as “an epic love story and political thriller,” the series tracks the two men across four decades, through the Lavender Scare, the Vietnam War protests of the ’60s, the disco scene of the ’70s, and the AIDS crisis of the ’80s.
The official synopsis reads:
Matt Bomer plays handsome, charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith.
They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history.
Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters — Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Jelani Alladin), Lucy (Allison Williams), and Frankie (Noah J. Ricketts) – as they cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.
Coming soon to Paramount+ with SHOWTIME.