Fellow Travelers was created by Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), based on the novel by Thomas Mallon. It is a love story and political thriller about the clandestine romance of two very different men who meet in the shadows of McCarthy-era Washington.
Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Allison Williams (Girls) and Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods) also star.
Bomer (Doom Patrol) plays the charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who has a financially rewarding behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements - until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey, Bridgerton), a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They strike up a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn are declaring war on "subversives and sexual deviations", beginning one of the darkest periods in twentieth-century American history.
Over the course of four decades, we follow the five main characters - Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Alladin), Lucy (Williams) and Frankie (Ricketts) - as they cross paths during the 1960s anti-Vietnam War protests, drug-addicted disco hedonism in the 1970s and the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, as they encounter obstacles in the world and within themselves.
Fellow Travelers will make its streaming debut on Paramount+ with Showtime starting Friday, October 27 before its linear debut on Sunday, October 29 on Showtime. The series will also premiere on Paramount+ on October 27 in Canada and October 28 in the United Kingdom, Australia, Latin America, South Korea, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Bomer and Nyswaner co-produce with Robbie Rogers (All American (2018)) and Dee Johnson. Daniel Minahan (Halston, American Crime Story) serves as executive producer and also directs the first two episodes. Fellow Travelers is co-produced by Fremantle and Showtime.
Watch a teaser for Fellow Travelers below.
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