Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey's gay romantic drama debuts with 100% RT score
Fellow Travelers, the new gay romantic drama featuring Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey, has debuted with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Showtime/Paramount+ series stars Bailey and Matt Bomer as two men who enter into a relationship just as US senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn wage war on "subversives and sexual deviants", in what is called the "Lavender Scare" of the 1950s.
Rotten Tomatoes currently has eight reviews ahead of the show's October 27 release, and all of them are positive, hence the current 100% rating.
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Here's what some of them have said.
Variety - no score
"The inherent heaviness of Fellow Travelers is alleviated by Bomer and Bailey's electric chemistry. Hawk and Tim's relationship shifts over the decades, but their erotic intimacy and attraction reverberate off the screen, showcasing a euphoric and profoundly moving connection despite its flaws. The historical drama moves well beyond the physical, forcing the viewer to look not just at some of the most atrocious moments in American history but at ourselves and the people who put our souls at ease."
TV Guide - 7/10
"On paper, all of this sounds typical, even crushingly predictable. To be fair, it often is. Hawk and Tim are instantly smitten, and they spend much of the 1950s sneaking in and out of each other's apartments in the dark of night. But Fellow Travelers doesn't rest on easy moral righteousness.
"Hawk and Tim are themselves flawed. Love that lives in the shadows can't truly shine, and as the series waltzes back and forth across a 30-year span, the men's devotion to each other and to their political principles recedes in fascinatingly complex ways."
The Hollwood Reporter - no score
"The sex scenes are plentiful and graphic. Nyswaner (Philadelphia) and the series directors, led by Daniel Minahan (Halston), tailor the chemistry and choreography of the couplings around Tim and Hawk's shifting power dynamics. However frequently you might think: 'I've never seen THAT position on TV,' the frequent boinking never feels gratuitous."
Entertainment Weekly - B grade
"This somewhat didactic detour dilutes the emotional strength of Travelers' back half, but the bittersweet allure of Hawk and Tim's ill-fated connection sustains until the end. Lessons aside, it's the lovers' personal history — and the painful truths they learn about themselves — that linger."
Fellow Travelers will premiere on October 27 on Showtime in the US, and on October 28 on Paramount+ in the UK.
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