Fellow Travelers review: An epic gay love story that's as heart-wrenching as it is heartwarming

Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey star in Showtime's decades-spanning romance

Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? That is one of the questions at the heart of Fellow Travelers, the intoxicating Showtime/Paramount+ limited series about two men who fall in love at the height of McCarthyism in 1950s Washington D.C. and weave in and out of each other’s lives for years at a time before coming to terms with their whirlwind secret romance during the AIDS epidemic of the ’80s.

Since Bailey’s casting was announced last year, there has already been a lot of social-media chatter in anticipation of the sex scenes in Fellow Travelers—and that discourse has only intensified with the release of the first intimate scenes.

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