‘Fellow Travelers’ puts its foot in its mouth (literally) with sex-filled premiere that already has the gays hooked
Fellow Travelers skips the foreplay and just gets right to the hot, streamy, rough sex. And lots of it!In the lead-up to its premiere, we’d been told sex would be a big part of this decades-spanning romance between closeted D.C.
professionals Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller (Matt Bomer) and Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey). But, you know, they were trying to promote a new series—of course they’d talk up the explicit scenes.However, if season opener “You’re Wonderful” is any indication, they weren’t lying.
We just might be in for one of the hottest gay TV shows of the year—or maybe ever.*Spoilers ahead for Fellow Travelers Episode 1, “You’re Wonderful.”* Fellow Travelers actually kicks off in the ’80s, where we’re introduced to Hawk as an older man living with his wife, Lucy (Allison Williams), in a big suburban home, surrounded by friends and family there to celebrate a move to Italy.But when an old pal, Marcus (Jelani Alladin), shows up with news that hid old lover Tim is in San Francisco, dying from AIDS, Hawk can’t help but remember what they had and what could have been.Cut to: Washington, D.C., 1952.
We’ll occasionally revisit the ’80s timeline, but it’s here and now that the crux of Fellow Travelers‘ story will unfold. Hawk, a celebrated war hero, is a staunch “independent” working for the office of Democratic Senator Wesley Smith (Linus Roach), his longtime mentor and—as we know from our glimpse at the future—the father of his eventual wife, Lucy.
