
Bridgerton‘s Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer are getting steamy within the first teaser for Showtime‘s upcoming restricted sequence Fellow Travelers.
Set to debut on Paramount+ with Showtime this fall; the eight-episode drama hails from Oscar-winning creator Ron Nyswaner. Led by Bomer and Bailey, the sequence additionally costars Jelani Alladin, Allison Williams, and Noah J. Ricketts, who additionally make transient appearances within the almost minute-long teaser above.
Primarily based on the novel of the identical title by Thomas Mallon, Fellow Vacationers is an epic love story and political thriller that chronicles the clandestine romance of two very totally different males, Tim Laughlin (Bailey) and Hawkins Fuller (Bomer). Assembly in McCarthy-era Washington, Hawkins maintains a financially rewarding behind-the-scenes profession in politics, and Tim is an idealistic younger man with deep spiritual religion.
Whereas Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements, he can’t assist however fall for Tim, and the pair start a romance on the identical time Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare battle on “subversives and sexual deviants,” which additionally initiates one of many darkest durations in Twentieth-century American historical past.
Fellow Vacationers is a narrative that unfolds over the course of 4 a long time, following 5 foremost characters – together with Hawkins, Tim, Marcus (Alladin), Lucy (Williams), and Frankie (Ricketts) – as they cross paths by way of the Vietnam Battle protests of the ’60s, the drug-fueled disco of the ’70s, and the AIDS disaster within the ’80s.
Alongside starring within the present, Bomer govt produces the mission alongside Nyswaner, Robbie Rogers, Dee Johnson, and director Daniel Minahan. The sequence is a co-production between Fremantle and Showtime. Keep tuned for extra on the sequence within the weeks forward, and take a look at the steamy teaser above.
Fellow Vacationers, Sequence Premiere, Fall 2023, Paramount+ with Showtime