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Critic Reviews
The Daily BeastOct 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It’s not just the sex that makes Fellow Travelers so great. It’s also the show’s ability to use wildly erotic fornication as a tool to increase its emotional resonance. The eight-episode limited series looks and feels like classic prestige TV, earning all eight hours of its runtime thanks to cunning writing, terrific editing, and some of the best lead performances of the year. This is can’t-miss television, brought back from its shallow grave.
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Oct 23, 2023
Oct 24, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The limited series works best in the ’50s and the ’80s, when the writers decide to strip away any unnecessary minor characters and, instead, keep the focus on Hawk and Tim’s inextricable connection. But all in all, this is the kind of devastating love story for the ages, brought to life with the undeniable talents of Bomer and Bailey, that will stay with you long after the end credits roll.
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TV Guide MagazineNov 2, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A fascinating historical drama. .... Bomer is especially effective, tapping a darker vein than we typically see. [6 - 26 Nov 2023, p.8]
Oct 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
What most satisfies here is the unpredictable way these men’s stories develop across all that history. .... The series’s greatest achievement is its commitment to its characters as characters — dwelling gently on their peculiarities and inconsistencies and never letting them become allegories for larger struggles.
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Oct 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Anchored by its strong lead performances, “Fellow Travelers” delivers a closing emotional wallop with its look at the initial governmental indifference surrounding the AIDS crisis, and all the struggles that have followed, up to and including the present. The only quibble would be the character makeup, which doesn’t quite indicate the passage of time.
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Oct 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
“Fellow Travelers” occasionally delves into treacly melodrama and has some borderline cringe-inducing dialogue and overly symbolic visuals. But on balance this is a beautifully shot and emotionally resonant story about a great love that was never allowed to fully flourish because of the bigotry and ignorance and wholly idiotic homophobia of mid-20th century America.
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Oct 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The final three episodes chart the characters' lives through the tumult of the Vietnam War protests in the '60s, the burgeoning gay rights movement in the '70s, and the emergence of the AIDS epidemic in the '80s. .... This somewhat didactic detour dilutes the emotional strength of Travelers' back half, but the bittersweet allure of Hawk and Tim's ill-fated connection sustains until the end.
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Oct 27, 2023
Oct 24, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Yet as good as "Travelers" often is — the performances of Bomer and Bailey in particular — something is missing. There are no female characters of any particular substance or depth. A few arrive, then go, while Williams' Lucy is mostly a sketch of the "long-suffering" variety over too many of these hours.
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ColliderOct 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It provides enough background so you’ll understand why each character acts the way they do and will make you reflect at least a little on how cruel society has been to our community. However, it prefers to give the spotlight to and downplay the actions of a character that’s problematic at best to the detriment of giving space to other stories — something that an eight-hour series should certainly have room for.
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Oct 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The performances are respectable, the aesthetics are elegant and assured. Fellow Travelers has the makings of a sharp, rewarding series, one that blends intellectual sophistication with the swoon and heartbreak of a romantic epic. But the show is determined to become a cursory civics lesson on top of all that, filling itself with pat lines of exposition in which characters make boilerplate statements about the state of injustice.
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