Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey play star-crossed lovers in Showtime's limited series 'Fellow Travelers,' based on Thomas Mallon's novel. Read our review.
, it's clear their relationship is doomed. Dining by candlelight at a swank Washington, D.C. restaurant, Hawk poses as Tim's uncle; it's one of many run-of-the-mill ruses that the suave State Department staffer uses to survive as a closeted gay man in 1950s America.
But for Tim — a diffident, devout congressional aid drunk on red wine and the first real love of his young life — the lie is an agonizing reminder of what he'll never have. As the restaurant's accordionist launches into a jazzy standard, Tim sings along before fleeing the dining room in tears. Hawk, his face a mask of practiced placidity, signals the waiter. "My nephew's not feeling well.
After meeting on election night in 1952, Hawk — a war hero and rising State Department star — helps Tim get a job working as an aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy and his malicious chief counsel, Roy Cohn . Tim's a true believer in McCarthy's high-profile campaign against the "threat" of Communism within the U.S. government, but he's a neophyte in the social aspects of Beltway politics — particularly the unspoken protocol of blending into polite society.
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