Fellow Travelers: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, the limited series Fellow Travelers is an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the intertwined lives and volatile romance of two very different men who meet in the shadow of McCarthy-era Washington. Matt Bomer will play handsome, charismatic Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements - until he meets Tim Laughlin, 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, 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.

Series details

• Title: Fellow Travelers
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2023-10-27
• Final broadcast date listed: 2023-12-15
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Paramount+
• Typical episode runtime: 59 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.3/10
• TVMaze ID: 61735
• IMDb ID: tt15384586
• TVDB ID: 419379

Cast and credited roles

• Matt Bomer — Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller
• Allison Williams — Lucy Smith
• Jonathan Bailey — Tim Laughlin
• Jelani Alladin — Marcus Gaines
• Noah J. Ricketts — Frankie Hines
• Linus Roache — Senator Smith

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2023-10-27; final listed air date 2023-12-15; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

Adapted from Fellow Travelers on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.