‘Fellow Travelers’ Teaser Hints at Sweeping Love Story Amid Homophobia and Political Persecution (Video)
description, Bomer plays Hawkins Fuller, a handsome, charismatic man who “maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the scenes career in politics.” Bailey plays Tim Laughlin, “a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith.” The characters’ lives intertwine in 1950s Washington D.C., during Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn’s war on “subversives and sexual deviants.”The upcoming drama also stars Jelani Alladin as Marcus, Allison Williams as Lucy and Noah J.
Ricketts as Frankie. The show spans four decades, interweaving the five main characters through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the “drug-fueled disco hedonism” of the ‘70s and the AIDS crisis of the ‘80s.
Created by Ron Nyswaner (“Philadelphia,” “Homeland”), “Fellow Travelers” is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon.
