August 17, 2023
Watch: Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey Get Steamy in 'Fellow Travelers' Preview
Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 1 MIN.
Another steamy gay love story is on the way to the silver screen, and it finally has a premiere date.
That's right. Showtime set Friday, Oct. 27 as the premiere date for its limited series "Fellow Travelers," starring the delicious Matt Bomer and the swoon-worthy Jonathan Bailey. As reported by Deadline, the show will first hit streaming on Paramount+ then slide over to Showtime on Sunday, Oct. 29.
In Canada, the series will also premiere on Paramount+ on October 27 in Canada and premiere on October 28 in the UK, Australia, Latin America, South Korea, Italy, Germany Switzerland and Austria.
Created by Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia"), the series is based on Thomas Mallon's novel of the same name. Part love story and part political thriller, the series is set during the McCarthy-era in Washington, D.C.
Bomer plays the charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who has a rewarding political career behind the scenes. And Bailey plays Tim Laughlin, a young, religious idealist. When they begin a romance, things get very complicated as political firebrands Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on "subversives and sexual deviants," ushering in one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history.
Over the course of four decades, the characters cross paths and change, from the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, to the hedonistic horniness of the 1970s, to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
All in all, its a wide-ranging tale, and Bomer and Bailey are tasked with making it all believable and lovable. See a look at their on-screen chemistry below.