Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey star as high-level government workers who fall in lust and then love amid McCarthy's witch hunt.
“You have a beautiful family, a beautiful life,” says one old friend to another. “I hope it was worth it.” In “Fellow Travelers,” the Showtime limited series adapted from the 2007 novel of the same name, “it” means living in the closet, which has been professionally beneficial for the sleekly handsome Hawkins Fuller — it’s the 1980s and he’s about to take a diplomatic posting in Milan — but devastating on his soul.
Their relationship is defined by this uneven power dynamic. Earnest and wide-eyed, it takes Tim a surprisingly long time to become disgusted enough by McCarthy to quit his job. Hawk is older and he’s an operator. He christens his lover with the diminutive nickname “Skippy” and I cringed every time. Their clandestine affair plays on this imbalance.
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