agreed !two beautiful, loving humans marginalized and ultimately killed (Tim) by tyrannical Puritanism and hypocrisy rough years to be alive fantastic actors (all of them) and Tim and Hawk broke my heart every week this series should collect a bunch of awards if tv critics do their job!!!!

Yes

Even after 40 years... We can see stories like that. I'm from Brazil and it's pretty common.

Not in middle east

I can say that most members of the LGBT+ community nowadays have open relationships, but some of them don’t have the intimate feelings and love that Hawk and Skippy had. 🥺

You said it perfectly. I watched the series, 1 episode a week. After all 8 episodes, I then watched it all again over two days. Was able to see even more nuance the second time. Jonathan, Matt, Jelani, & Noah stole my heart & big shout out to Allison & Erin as well. Major thanks to everyone involved--this was epic, important, & beautiful.

Epic us exactly the right word to describe this series. This is the template for all future series should study.

Couldn't agree more

Will watch this on January 5th

There hasn’t been a movie so real and as touching in every aspic of life from one decade to the next as Fellow Travelers. I hope it receives the accolades it deserves.

There is nothing more important than the love they have for each other

Uma das motivações desta série é denunciar a perseguição dos governos dos EUA (1950 - 1980) à comunidade Queer durante a Guerra Fria.

I did cry, both at the end of the series and watching this edit.

So sad

Same -- full blown crying.

gays dont tend to get a happier ending, or its a superficial ending from a superficial story. ive not seen an unexpected happyt ending frok an emotionally told story of two men

That's definitely not true, there's loads of things out there where LGBTQ+ couples have gotten their deserved happy ending if you look for them and as much as I wish Tim got a better ending, considering the times they were in during the series - this ending is realistic because this is what happened to a lot of men too. They were just cast aside and left to die because being gay wasn't accepted back then. Despite Tim's diagnosis, he still could've had a happy life with anyone else but unfortunately couldn't fully let go of Hawk to allow himself to do that which is explained in the series, which sucks. 😭 He deserved an epic love story that lasted with someone who loved him wholeheartedly.@@AnthonyVincentD

I have to say, you express the sadness I felt when I watched this series, particularly the last episode, but I was cathartic to see several interviews with Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baily as themselves and the joy that they bring to their acting profession.

It broke me and omg the ending, it had me sobbing as well. Tim really really REALLY deserved better!

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I really want to push the like button more than once❤

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Sorry for your loss...However... what should be emphasized is that being gay is not mutually exclusive. Could you imagine being gay and black in the 50s!?!? It was a double threat... Discrimination, by the YT gay community to the 10th degree. There was no unity, until there was and progress started to happen. There is the National AIDS memorial. A symbol of the HIV/AIDS struggle, activism in the fight against stigma, and hate.

Heartbreaking 😢

And i hate hawk

@@noobking9438 He's just an o'l school man who constantly battles with his homosexuality. He's a war hero who's not allowed to cry. I really recommend you watch "The Normal Heart" where Matt Bomer plays Felix, a character more similar to Tim. I also suggest you watch "Anything" where Matt plays a vulnerable transgender woman. As for the "Hawk" character in FELLOW TRAVELERS, well, he reminds me of many o'l school men I've met, both straight and gay. O'l school men = DON'T show your emotions, do your duty, & don't complain.

@@MichMeister16 i will watch it soon..tq dear

Agree this really got me

me too😭😭🤧

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@mikemcmahon8982, I totally agree with what you said. I hated that Tim didn't take of hisself around Hawk. He continued to let Hawk back into his Iife, knowing that he was going to disappoint him. Unavailable people will break your heart everytime.I learned my lesson. Smh

I think you´ve missed a couple of things here. In the 50s it would simply have been dangerous for Hawk and Skippy to be together. Skippy, in his madly in love way, would have outed them. Probably by accident. Hawk needed to protect them. As for Lucy; She knew what she was getting into. Her own mother told her to accept his “extra-marital activities” as „just the meeting of needs“. Did you notice that Lucy not once said she loved Hawk? She mentioned that she loved the life they had build. She got exactly what she asked for, realizing late in life that it wasn´t enough. Since Hawk decided to start a family, at least he had the decency to stick to them. Provide for them etc. It might not have been enough and Hawk´s character might have been selfish and flawed but I think he did the best he could. So maybe your opinion is a bit too black and white?

@@peteraschaffenburg1 Thank you for your feedback. I do understand that life adds lots of gray so that every relationship is unique. In the case of Skippy and Hawk, I think that Hawk never thought that it was possible for a man to love another man and perhaps he doesn’t know how to handle love when it is offered to him. But there were individuals that did figure it out. That lived the life they wanted to live, despite society’s expectations. Look at Marcus . I agree with your comment on Lucy’s behaviour , she may not have figured out who Hawk was at the time of her wedding, and,perhaps she had some idealized idea of who that war hero was that she was marrying, but time does open doors. When the realization came , she acted upon it and extricated herself from that marriage. She had the grace to recognize what she saw with Hawk and Skippy was something valid. I am not sure Hawk ever did see the validity of a relationship with Skippy, until Skippy was dead. As for Hawk deciding to start a family, it was society that made him choose to get married. I am not sure he wanted to get married as opposed to being forced to do so by society. I think he may have loved his children, but I don’t think he ever really understood his son or really tried to do so. But this doesn’t lessen the pain he felt at his son’s death. Ultimately when you distill their relationships to their essence, I still see a narcissist and someone who loves him. Perhaps the distillation may make those gray areas merge into the black and white ones. But the fact that you felt compelled to respond to my view of the series and your comment made me think about relationships in general , shows you how effective this series was.

@@mikemcmahon8982 Thank you for taking the time to answer my comment! Effective might not be a word I´d use to describe the series. ;-) I´m struggling with it for a number of reasons. Number one being that no one in my surroundings understands English enough to watch it with me so I have no other outlet than Facebook and KZfaq to exchange my thoughts. I can only watch it in 15 minutes bits and then have to cry for an hour. So yes, I might be a little obsessed. ;-) I was a young adult when AIDS became an issue. I´ve seen the Anyta Bryants and the nasty homophobia even in one of the most liberal countries in the world - the Netherlands - back then. Have you seen the series Queer as Folk back in 2000? Hawk reminds me a bit of Brian Kinney. Everybody hated his guts, selfishness and stubborn refusal to tell Justin he loved him. But if there was a problem they all looked at him for a solution and in the end he tried to give everyone what they wanted. That´s Hawk one on one. Have you ever considered that loving someone is actually a selfish feeling? What most people actually mean when they say those famous three words is “I love to be loved by you”. Tim´s love for Hawk might have been altruistic but in reality that´s not how relationships work.

I can't help but feel that this surface reading is such a disservice to both the nuanced writing and Matt Bomer's incredible performance. Sure, I guess if you really want you can see Hawk as this mustache twirling evil narcissist who only ever made the choice he made because he enjoyed toying with Tim, but like... why would you choose to read it like that when there was a much, MUCH better story being told if you allow for Hawk to be an actual person? A person who loved Tim every bit as deeply as Tim loved him, but who was also deeply traumatized and afraid that if he allowed himself to think that a safe and happy life with Tim could be possible, it would all come crashing down and, probably his deepest fear, that Tim would be the one to pay the worst price for it. If you actually read Hawk as human, it becomes very clear that the choices he makes are far more out of self destructive tendencies and a self fulfilling prophecy of him feeling like he's not good for the people he cares about than out of any narcissism, lack of conscience, or crazy ambition. And all the times he reaches back out to Tim, it's not because he's trying to destroy his life - it's for the exactly the same reason Tim keeps being drawn back to him too: because he's deeply in love with him! And in a lot of ways, Hawk needs Tim in his life a lot more than Tim needs him; Tim is a very open person who has no problem finding community and people to lean on, even if not romantic interests. Hawk, on the other hand, literally has no one else he feels safe enough to be vulnerable and his truest self with. And sure, it's not untrue that that's the case because of his own choices, but those choices were also *intensely* informed by what the world around him was telling him were the options. He literally outright says in episode 3 "the lying starts to get easier, because you realize you have no choice". Whether he was right or not about the options, the fact is that he did genuinely believe he had no other choice BUT to live the life he did, and it's understandable that he believed that given the world they lived in. So the tragedy of the story has nothing to do with Hawk "not loving Tim enough"; I just don't even get what more the show could have done to show (I emphasize "show" because yes, the whole point is that it was the saying it out loud that was the hardest part for him and took him a very long time) how much and how deeply he loved him. The tragedy is that they both (and Lucy) deserved so much better. Hawk deserved to not live in a world that told him his only option was to live a lie and settle for "happiness within reason" when his happiness beyond measure was right there. Tim deserved to live in a world that was caught up to him and where he could live and be loved as openly as he was ready to. Lucy deserved for Hawk to be able to be open with or, or at least to have more options for leaving sooner to pursue her own romantic fulfillment. *No one* won.

Fr same....I've already every clip on social media😭😭😭

Same I stopped watching after the second episode, I'm not strong enough for the whole thing and I'm OK with it.

pls reconsider... the series is gut-wrenching but beautiful

Hawk loved Tim more than anything in this world 😢 he made mistakes yes but he loved Tim make no mistake about that.

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he was fantastic. They all did an amazing job to make their characters incredibly real

@@minti1962 yes they did❤️! Just wanted to show Jelani some love since no one has mentioned him or Noah

There was more than two gay actors in the series

Im sure this series made an impact on many a lives

Can you please tell me if Tim survived? Please?

Watch the interviews they are doing together to promote the show. There is so much love between them. I cant get over them either. LOL

@@evelynfernandez2121 the interview with the puppies is my favorite. Matt, Jonny and puppies.. OMG they are sooo adorable!

@@FirstTimeCatMom No 😭

relatable..

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@@manishubhshubh7943 Fellow Travelers

Fellow Travelers

Everyday I think I’ll be able to watch any thing FT related without crying. And then I see their faces and tear up