Jonathan Bailey is leaping from the Regency age to an American enjoy story.
The Bridgerton star and Matt Bomer will play enthusiasts in Showtime’s upcoming restricted series Fellow Travelers, the network revealed on July11
The series, based upon the unique by Thomas Mellon, is “an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in the shadow of McCarthy-era Washington,” according to the network. “Handsome and charismatic Hawkins Fuller (Bomer) avoids emotional entanglements—until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith.”
The eight-episode series likewise co-stars Allison Williams as Lucy Smith, the child of a senator who has actually understood Fuller considering that they were teens.
Fuller and Laughlin “begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on ‘subversives and sexual deviants,’ initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history,” according toShowtime “Over the course of four decades, Hawk and Tim cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.”
