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Type: thriller, sentimental, historical
Direction: Ronald L. Nyswaner. With Matt Bomer, Jonathan Bailey, Allison Williams, Jelani Alladin and Chris Bauer. On Paramount+
Homosexual love in the times of McCarthyism. The new eight-episode series distributed by Paramount+ Travel friends (Fellow Travelers the original title) is a powerful and authentic representation of an era and its ghosts.
In post-war America, while Eisenhower becomes president and the famous senator Joseph McCarty hunts down communism (red scarethe “fear of reds”), but also to gays, lesbians and minoritiesHawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer), a well-known and respected war veteran in Washington, and Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), a shy boy from a deeply religious family, they secretly live an overwhelming passion.
Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey in “Fellow Travelers” (© Showtime Networks).
The love story between Hawkins and Tim spans several decades of American historyarriving at the height of the 1980s and the spread of AIDS.
On an aesthetic level, the series (originally broadcast at home on the Showtime cable channel) depicts details and images of the time, restoring a realistic flavor to a crucial historical period in the United Statesthe.
Adapted for TV by Rod Nyswaner, it is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon.
For those who love reconstructions of historical periods and “lateral” events, but no less powerful for this.
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