Fellow Travelers

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Season 1
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
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Critic Reviews

  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Oct 27, 2023
    60
    The series could afford to be a little boring now and again, not like a bad TV show, but in the way life is much or most of the time, in between the towering highs and abysmal lows — where “Fellow Travelers” largely lives.
  2. Collider
    Reviewed by: Erick Massoto
    Oct 27, 2023
    50
    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.
  3. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Richard Lawson
    Oct 26, 2023
    50
    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.
  5. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jackson McHenry
    Oct 27, 2023
    40
    The messier and more contradictory Nyswaner lets these characters be, the more real they become. Unfortunately, Fellow Travelers drifts in the opposite direction, toward smoothness and bland palatability.