“Fellow travelers” was a term used during the 1950s Red Scare for people who were suspected to be sympathetic to Communist causes, if not necessarily card-carrying members. But of course, it wasn’t just Communists who were persecuted by Joseph McCarthy and his ilk; on the upcoming Showtime series Fellow Travelers, Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileymaintain a romance even as McCarthy and his aide Roy Cohn are purging gay and lesbian people from government jobs. Bailey tells David Canfield in our exclusive first look that he’d wanted to star in a sweeping gay love story, but never imagined something like that would come his way—until Fellow Travelers did.
Elsewhere in HWD, WGA strike captain Sasha Stewartshares a few etiquette pointers for the picket lines; Savannah Walsh has the rundown on the best of Netflix in June and a new documentary about Mary Tyler Moore; and Julie Millertalks to Succession costume designer Michelle Matlandabout the journey each of the Roy children have been on this season, and how that’s been reflected in their (über-luxurious) clothes.
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