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Fellow Travelers review – the gay sex scenes are jaw-droppingly graphic

The shiny fresh drama Fellow Travelers glides through all the major markers of prestige television. Glossy production standards, multiple timelines, a combination of sweeping score and pricey needle drops – it’s almost appointment viewing by numbers, carefully ticking boxes we’ve seen ticked to exhaustion over the last two decades. But within the first 10 minutes of the opening episode, we also see something that’s notably less familiar, if not absent, even in the expansive bloat of streaming TV: explicit gay sex.

It’s surprising to come across it outside of more niche gay content, but especially so in a show that is otherwise rather too polite in its posture and politics – a Sunday night romance planned to appeal to a straight mom-and-pop audience. The sex scenes are both jaw-droppingly graphic and crucial to the plot, a convincing riposte to the recent argument posed by puritans that watching actors simulate sex is not just morally dubious but unnecessary. Throughout the eight episodes, which span almost 40 years, a tragic love affair is given much needed texture via sex, and it is the most intriguingly transg

‘Fellow Travelers’ Has Matt Bomer as Don Draper and Lots of Steamy Male lover Sex

In 2007, Matt Bomer would have been a little too immature to play Don Draper on Mad Men. (Jon Hamm has six years on him.) In most other ways, though, he would have been matchless. He has the kind of chiseled, leading man features, and the charisma to match, that make him come across like a dude from an earlier time. His breakout TV role, 2009’s White Collar, even contrived a reason to dress him in Rat Pack-era suits, and he’s appeared in a number of period pieces, most notably Amazon’s short-lived adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon. In that show, and in many of his other roles, he’s also demonstrated a great facility for playing men hiding trauma and other secrets deep below that beautiful facade he shows to the world.

With Showtime‘s new miniseries Fellow Travelers, Bomer finally gets to portray a closer approximation of Draper. In the adaptation of Thomas Mallon’s novel, Bomer plays Hawkins Fuller, a mid-century decorated military veteran turned mover and shaker, who will do anything to conceal the truth about himself, who has a terrifying gift

Why every closeted gay Catholic should watch ‘Fellow Travelers’

Editor’s note: Outreach is publishing this essay anonymously to protect the author’s persona, at his request. The composer is a former seminarian who currently works at a Catholic high school.

It’s not often a gay TV drama is so spot on that you tell, “Wow, it’s like someone was writing this with me in mind!” But for a closeted gay Catholic man like me, Showtime’s “Fellow Travelers” is just this.

An eight-part miniseries spanning several decades, the drama follows the government bureaucrat Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller (Matt Bomer), and Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), a bright-eyed employee in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s office, as they navigate the “Lavender Scare” of the 1950s through the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Hawk is a put-together professional from a wealthy family, while Tim is young and naive. Both men are homosexual, but are forced to stay closeted to keep their jobs.

There’s an immediate attraction between the two men after gathering in a bar during a campaign event. And what follows is nothing short of tragic and heart-wrenching. Throughout the series, we watch their on-again,

The wins and flaws of 'Fellow Travelers,' a show about two same-sex attracted men over 4 decades

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:

The recent series "Fellow Travelers" follows two gay men over the course of four decades, from the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s through the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. At the start of their relationship in 1953, both men work for the federal government in Washington, D.C. They live under the constant threat of exposure, even when they find themselves in the seemingly safe space of one of D.C.'s underground gay bars.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "FELLOW TRAVELERS")

UNIDENTIFIED Player #1: (As character) Hey, buster. See that red line on the cash register there? That comes on, you better form 12 inches of daylight between you and your friend right here and do it fast - only takes three seconds for the cops to come downstairs.

SUMMERS: Glen Weldon is host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, and he's here to talk about "Fellow Travelers." Hi, Glen.

GLEN WELDON, BYLINE: Hey, Juana.

SUMMERS: So, Glen, I mean, this sounds like a phenomenal setup for a display. Tell us a brief bit more about the two main characters.

WELDON: Successfully, they're played by Matt Bomer fr