Fellow Travelers Trailer: Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey Embark on Secret Love Affair in Showtime Series — Watch
Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey share “a great, consuming love” behind closed doors in the first full trailer for Showtime’s Fellow Travelers.
Based on Thomas Mallon’s novel, and adapted by Homeland/Ray Donovan vet Ron Nyswaner, the eight-episode limited series stars Bomer (White Collar) as the charismatic Hawkins Fuller, “who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics” during the 1950s, per the official synopsis. “Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements — until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bridgerton‘s Bailey), a young man who’s brimming with idealism and religious faith.”
In the above trailer, Hawkins and Tim begin a secret romance while “Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on ‘subversives and sexual deviants,’ initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history,” the synopsis continues. Hawkins denies having any relations with a man when questioned, proclaiming that there’s a special woman (Girls‘ Allison Williams) in his life.
“We lie about who we sleep with,” Hawkins says to Tim, who corrects him, “Not who we sleep with. It’s who we love.”
As the series spans four decades, “through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s,” Hawkins and Tim’s relationships, both with each other and the people in their lives, grow more complicated and tense. Hawkins’ significant other has suspicions about his secret activities, while Tim’s feelings for Hawkins seem to be tearing him apart.
Rounding out the cast are Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead World Beyond) and Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods).
Fellow Travelers debuts Friday, Oct. 27 on Paramount+ With Showtime, two days ahead of its linear Showtime premiere on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 9/8c.
Press PLAY above to watch the trailer, then hit the comments with your first impressions!
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