FELLOW TRAVELLERS
DRAMA / ROMANTIC DRAMA
USA
2023
FELLOW TRAVELERS is an American historical romance political thriller televisionminiseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon. The series premiered on October 29, 2023, on Showtime following an October 27 release on Paramount+ with Showtime. FELLOW TRAVELLERS consists of 8 episodes of 59 minutes.
STORY: An epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men, who meet in the shadow of McCarthy-era Washington. Handsome and charismatic Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) avoids emotional entanglements, that is until he meets Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE 1: These two men 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, Hawk (Matt Bomer) and Tim (Jonathan Bailey) cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fuelled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves
Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) & Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey)
MATT BOMER (2023) October 11, 1977, Webster Grove, MO, USA
JONATHAN BAILEY (2023) April 25, 1988, Wallingford, UK
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE 2: Jelani Alladin plays Marcus Gaines, a Langston Hughes admiring journalist covering Congress who meets the enchanting Frankie Hines (Noah J. Ricketts) at the Cozy Corner nightclub where Frankie is a server and performs in drag alongside the legendary Stormé DeLarverie (Chelsea Russell) as part of her Jewel Box Revue.
Marcus Gaines (Jelani Alladin) & Frankie Hines (Noah J. Ricketts)
JELANI ALLADIN (2023)
August 6, 1992, New York, NY, USA
NOAH J. RICKETTS (2023) ?, USA
SPECIAL: A show on the biggest closet gays in American history, Senator McCarthy and Roy Cohn, his lawyer. Their hatred over their own sexual desires made them spread homophobia all over the country. The invasive tactics of the FBI and the government into gay men’s lives is portrait here extremely powerfully. Both experience the insane level of homophobic hatred from the very top in the most insane ways.Noah J. Ricketts: “I feel like a lot of queer people, our history begins for us at Stonewall, and then goes forward from there. And so, to go pre-Stonewall, I had to do a lot of digging, and Google was my best friend. And I love finding these niche documentaries that highlighted the trans experience and the drag experience and finding the random source material and the books...”
AWARDS: ‘FELLOW TRAVELERS’ 1 win and 13 nominations.
8.2 IMDB
