At the start of the year, we did not expect to find this sublime and sensual melodrama.
The miniseries
Fellow Travelers
delves into America in the 1950s. Being gay there is as risky as being a communist.
World War II veteran Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer,
Magic Mike
) aims for a career in the State Department.
And lives his homosexuality in total clandestinity, making his lovers waltz, without tenderness but with a certain enjoyment.
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His meeting during an election night with an idealist, the ex-seminarian Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey, the debauched Viscount of
The Bridgerton Chronicles
) changes everything.
From this attraction is born an unprecedented attachment.
But faced with the hunt for “deviants” orchestrated by Senator Joseph McCarthy and prosecutor Roy Cohn, Hawkins will choose success and lies.
This will haunt him for the rest of his life.
By denying himself all feelings, by living hidden unlike Tim, he will end up suffocating and depriving even his own people of happiness and joy.
Starting with his courageous, not eternally fooled, wife, played by ex-
Girls
star Allison Williams.
As elegant as
Mad Men
, this series with graphic love scenes crosses eras, from the Vietnam War to the ravages of AIDS through the euphoria and utopia of the
seventies
.
Despite the breakups and their opposing beliefs, the paths of these star-crossed lovers will never stop crossing.
This stunning fresco, which retraces four decades of struggles of the LGBT community for the recognition of its rights, can be discovered on MyCanal and every Thursday on Canal + in the second half of the evening.