Fellow Travelers is set to land on 27 October

e might be waiting on tenterhooks for Jonathan Bailey to return as Anthony Bridgerton in the hit Netflix drama, Bridgerton, but the star has another project coming very soon alongside White Collar’s Matt Bomer – and it looks seriously good. So while we wait for season 3, here’s everything to need to know about Paramount+’s new miniseries, Fellow Travelers.

What is Fellow Travelers about?

The official synopsis reads: “Fellow Travelers is an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington.” Watch the trailer for the exciting new show here…

The description continues: “Matt Bomer plays handsome, charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They 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.

“Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus, Lucy, and Frankie – as they 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.”

When is Fellow Travelers out?

The first two episodes of the hit show will land on Paramount+ with the SHOWTIME plan on 27 October.

© Kurt Iswarienko

What are the early reactions to Fellow Travelers?

One reviewer posted on X: “Jonathan Bailey is astonishingly good in Showtime’s #FellowTravelers, an old-fashioned period drama about queer history that feels shockingly modern and necessary.” while Time’s Judy Berman added: “Nested within a case study of gay political life in the second half of the 20th century are eight episodes of gorgeous romantic drama in a medium that rarely seems suited to the genre.” The Standard’s Paul Flynn also wrote: “Fellow Travelers is possibly the glossiest gay series we’ve yet been given, and it takes time to crack that shiny carapace. The story is told with traditional Hollywood plotting, lighting and pristine glamour.”