Fellow Travelers

Spanning decades from the McCarthy era through the AIDS crisis, this Showtime miniseries follows the secret love affair between charismatic State Department official Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) and idealistic young journalist Timothy Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey).

Facing a polygraph test about his sex life during the Lavender Scare, Hawk marries the "eligible" Lucy Smith (Allison Williams) as a deliberate cover—a lavender marriage. They maintain what appears to be an ideal Washington marriage with children and a country house, while Hawk continues his clandestine relationship with Tim across the decades. The series powerfully depicts how government persecution drove LGBTQ+ people into sham marriages.