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In their new show, <\/span>Fellow Travelers<\/span><\/em>, <\/span>Matt Bomer<\/a> and <\/span>Jonathan Bailey<\/a> tackle a decades-long political thriller, with a hidden romance at the center of it all.<\/span><\/p>\n “<\/span>Fellow Travelers<\/em><\/a> is about two people who meet in the ’50s, and the course their connection takes over the subsequent decades,” Bomer says in Showtime’s behind-the-scenes look at the new limited series, which is based on the book of the same name by Thomas Mallon.<\/span><\/p>\n While Mallon’s book sets the romance between Bomer’s D.C. fixer\u00a0Hawkins Fuller and Bailey’s up-and-coming staffer Tim Laughlin firmly in the McCarthy era, the show starts in the ’50s, but then progresses throughout the next 40 years, tracking the on and off pair through the Lavender Scare, the free love era of the ’60s, the Vietnam protests of the ’70s and the AIDS scare in the ’80s.<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s amazing to study four decades of queer culture, so that we can hopefully understand ourselves a bit more,” Bailey marvels in the clip.<\/span><\/p>\n The transformation of the eras shines in the costuming, makeup and production design, and the cast admits to being blown away by the level of detail given to each era.<\/span><\/p>\n “So much of the detail of this world, to make it timeless, is through the creative teams and the design,” Bailey shares. “Queer culture blooms like a flower, and that’s exactly what you get to see in terms of the monochrome colors of the ’50s, through to the ’80s where there’s sort of this neon pop of color.”<\/span><\/p>\n