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Why Showtime’s historical drama ‘Fellow Travelers’ is a fiery love affair for the ages
Fellow Travelers, is an epic love story set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing country, when hard-won progress for queer Americans came in fits and starts.Based on a novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon, the decades-spanning series opens in Washington, D.C. in the 1950s, when Senator Joseph McCarthy stoked fears of the Soviet Union and brought about an era of political repression, targeting homosexuals and anyone suspected to be sympathetic to communist ideals.It’s here that we’re introduced to Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller (The Normal Heart‘s Matt Bomer), a charismatic war hero and respected government official, and Tim Laughlin (Bridgerton‘s Jonathan Bailey), a meek and idealistic recent college grad.