Fellow Travelers

Fellow Travelers is an American historical romance political thriller television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon. Starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, it centers on the decades-long romance between two men who first meet during the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s. The series premiered on October 27, 2023 on Showtime. Premise After a chance encounter in Washington D.C. in the 1950s, Hawkins Fuller (Bomer) and Timothy Laughlin (Bailey) start a volatile romance that spans "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". Cast Main Matt Bomer as Hawkins Fuller Jonathan Bailey as Tim Laughlin Jelani Alladin as Marcus Hooks Linus Roache as Senator Wesley Smith Noah J. Ricketts as Frankie Hines Allison Williams as Lucy Smith