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Showtimes Fellow Travelers, starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, is a steamy political thriller that you wont want to miss. Heres how to watch.

Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated screenwriter, can still recall a chance meeting on a beach more than 50 years ago. Then a teenager and a s

“Fellow Travelers” highlights the now-infamous Red Scare, led by Senator Joe McCarthy to ferret out Communists in government.  It soon transmuted into the Lavender Scare, a witch hunt for “perverts,” gays and lesbians, in the State Department.

There’s illicit romance under the long shadow of McCarthyism, while a sweeping adaptation of a Pulitzer prize-winning novel is full of stately, sinister grace

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip
 for the coming week. Equal parts political thriller and steamy, doomed romance, “Fellow Travelers” proves to be an addictive yarn that, despite its period setting, feels vital and relevant in 2023 America. Now streaming on Paramount + and making

"I thought in 2023 that I had no interest in an all white show".

Costume designer Joseph La Corte was tasked with costuming a cast that included Jonathan Bailey, Matt Bomer and Allison Williams for ‘Fellow Travellers’, which takes their characters from the height of the Lavender Scare to the AIDS epidemic.

The screenwriter and executive producer talks about the making of the Showtime miniseries.

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN

Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey star as two lovers in a decades-long romance through the latter half of the 20th century.