Airdate: Fellow Travelers
Ron Nyswaner and Matt Bomer star in a new love story of two men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington.
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Upcoming period romance Fellow Travelers, will premiere on Paramount+ in late October.
Fellow Travelers is created for television by Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia, Homeland) and stars Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart, The Boys in the Band), Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Allison Williams (Get Out, Girls) and Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods).
Created by Nyswaner and based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers is an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the clandestine romance of two very different men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington.
Bomer plays charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (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 (Alladin), Lucy (Williams), and Frankie (Ricketts) – as they 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.
Bomer and Nyswaner executive produce with Robbie Rogers (All American, My Policeman) and Dee Johnson. Daniel Minahan (Halston, American Crime Story: Versace) executive produces and also directs the first two episodes. Fellow Travelers is co-produced by Fremantle and Showtime.
Saturday, 28 October on Paramount+
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The McCarthy era has been overlooked for attention, with perhaps the recent effort on Netflix called ‘Hollywood’ being an exception. McCarthy was censured by the U.S. Senate in 1954, but America’s racial segregation which supposedly ended in the 1950’s continued in some form for many years afterwards, and the repealing of sodomy laws in the U.S. took even longer. McCarthyism was at it’s height during The Red Scare, when America promoted the fear that Communism was undermining America, but McCarthyism was an extreme right wing ideology that mostly benefited the powerful status-quo, McCarthy began a period of political inquisition to find communist subversives, which Hollywood have made movies about, well known Hollywood studio contract writers and authors were persecuted for promoting socialism.