FIRST FELLOW TRAVELERS
SERIES IMAGES WITH MATT BOMER AND JONATHAN BAILEY
Newly minted Paramount + with Showtime has released first images from their period set mini series FELLOW TRAVELERS which will arrive to the small screens this Autumn starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan
Bailey as a gay couple. Both of them are gay in private lives as well. Bailey is Tim Laughlin, a young and optimistic graduate looking for a job in 
Washington DC’s elite, and Matt is Hawkins Fuller, a political staffer in the adaptation of Thomas Mallon’s novel of the same name. 
Bailey as a gay couple. Both of them are gay in private lives as well. Bailey is Tim Laughlin, a young and optimistic graduate looking for a job in 
Washington DC’s elite, and Matt is Hawkins Fuller, a political staffer in the adaptation of Thomas Mallon’s novel of the same name. 
IN THE EIGHT PART SERIES
They
forge a decades-spanning relationship against a backdrop of
McCarthyism, the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis, from the 1950s all the
way to the 80s. The series sees Hawkins get Laughlin a job working for
Senator Joe McCarthy. The Senator led the Lavender (and Red) Scare,
which 
saw people ejected from government positions for even the
slightest hint of being homosexual.
Hawkins asks Laughlin to spy on McCarthy (Chris Bauer) which adds a
transactional quality to the pair’s relationship.
way to the 80s. The series sees Hawkins get Laughlin a job working for
Senator Joe McCarthy. The Senator led the Lavender (and Red) Scare,
which 
saw people ejected from government positions for even the
slightest hint of being homosexual.
Hawkins asks Laughlin to spy on McCarthy (Chris Bauer) which adds a
transactional quality to the pair’s relationship. AMERICANA 19TH CENTURY
TV SERIES SETS LEAD CAST
Here's a new historical series for you: as Deadline reports Disney's Star + streamer in South America is shooting two six episode seasons of AMERICANA period set series with Kaiwi Lyman joined by Caco Ciocler, Andre Ramiro, Bruno Gissoni, Larissa Nunes, David Júnior, Maria Luiza Mendonça, Luciano Quirino, Zahy Tentehar, Diego lleske, Arthur Garbe in the cast. It is set in Americana, a municipality in the state of
São Paulo, during the late 19th century and follows the Confederates who left the U.S. for Brazil after losing the American Civil War. The protagonists are a police officer and his female slave, who is also a detective, as they uncover the truth behind murders in the town. About 20,000 Confederate subjects, known as Confederados, left America to emigrate to Brazil in the 19th Century.
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| Arthur Garbe, Kaiwi Lyman and Caco Ciocler will star in the series |
I am not a fan of historical series or films, but this one does sound quite interesting!
ReplyDeleteIt sure is original, do not know how the modern audience will react to him having a female slave, though.
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DeleteNo, no, no!!! I'm desperately seeking info on both colonies the Confederates founded in Latin America: one , Villa Carlota, in México and Americana in Brasil. Now Disney hogs are making a miniseries about it? Well, then being Disney it might be a pigsty.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it with villains, like Confederates and Nazis, always seeking refuge in South America? Because you and us are so corrupted?
DeleteThere is no comparison between Nazi war criminals and Confederate soldiers. The main one is that the latter were just war veterans that have lost everything. Nobody was chasing them; they had committed no crimes. Emperor Max in Mexico needed soldiers and called on to them. When Max was shot and his empire toppled, another emperor, Dom Pedro of Brazil, offered Confederates and their families land and a place to start over again, out of kindness mostly.
DeleteSince the early 30s, Nazis infiltrated German communities in several Latin American countries (mine included) so there were Latin American Nazi parties, clubs and so on in several places. It was a perfect place for them to hide, even in Brazil that had fought on the Allied side. Nazi criminals, whose names were on Allied most wanted lists, found plenty of help in Europe through several channels, the so called ratlines (you should watch The Patients of Dr. Garcia, it’s all about that subject). Some ended in South America, many remained in Spain, lots of them settled in Arab countries and trained their armies to fight Israelis, and there were those who have been found here and in Canada. South America has always been a haven. The fact that I exist is proof of that. Not only Nazis came down there, their victims too.
Why is the fact that you exist the proof of that, gattofila?
DeleteIn a nutshell, my maternal grandmother was born in Northern Italy in a large Sephardi family. In 1938, Mussolini passed racial laws that excluded Jews from holding jobs and turned them into third rate citizens. My grandmother’s family realized worse things were about to come. Because my grandmother was the youngest and the only one still unmarried, her mother and brothers checked on relatives in South America that could take her in. My grandfather (he was my grandmother’s second cousin) offered to marry her and thus provided her with papers to enter Chile. They married by proxy, she traveled to Valparaiso by ship in 1939, and thus my mother came to be and by extension so did I. It was a wise move, since only my great-grandmother and four great aunts survived the German Occupation and two of them lost husband and children in Auschwitz. After the war, my great grandmother and two of her daughters came to Chile as refugees. Zia Sandra settled in Rio, and Zia Maddalena in Buenos Aires. As you see, not only Nazis found refuge in South America
DeleteSo you are part Italian basically!
DeleteI thought you knew akready. I'll fill you in about my racial profile in Mesenger
DeleteI do love Matt Bomer, so I’ll look forward to that one. It must be a welcome change not playing a straight male.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Bailey is also lovely, he is dating Hugh Skinner currently, the cutest UK couple if you ask me.
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