Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey's miniseries Fellow Travelers to premiere on Prime Video

Fellow Travelers, the miniseries starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey as the leads, is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 17.

Described as a political thriller, the story of Fellow Travelers is as follows: "Chronicling the clandestine romance of two very different men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington. Hawkins Fuller is a man who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin, a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants”, initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus, Lucy, and Frankie – as they cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fuelled disco hedonism of the 1970s, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves."

The cast of Fellow Travelers include Matt Bomer, Jonathan Bailey, Jelani Alladin, Linus Roache, Noah J Ricketts, and Allison Williams.

The miniseries is created by Ron Nyswaner and is directed by Uta Briesewitz, Destiny Eargha, James Kent, and Daniel Minahan. It is co-produced by Fremantle and Showtime, with Paramount Global Content Distribution handling international distribution.

Fellow Travelers is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 17.