FELLOW TRAVELERS E1 - UNCUT
Added 2023-11-03 14:43:24 +0000 UTCIts finally here (the correct version!)
Enjoy getting hot under the collar with Matt and Jonathan
warning - contains nudity!
Love
Alex and Josh
xoxo
Comments
"Have I ever all these years, opened your mail?", I found that this was a lie on Lucy's part after watching Episode 6 when she burned Tim's letter to Hawk after reading it. Technically though it wasn't mail if Tim just slipped it under Hawk's apartment door and didn't go through the mail post delivery.
Jose Matutina
2024-01-07 12:37:06 +0000 UTCIn the beginning hawk mouthed "Time for bed."
Tiana
2023-12-20 13:00:08 +0000 UTCJosh your smile and your reaction are priceless!!! Get the fan out oh josh, love it 😍
Johnny Alvarez
2023-12-04 03:00:57 +0000 UTCIn the book, Tim wasn't allowed visitors because his apartment is of illegal occupancy. Visitors can be indiscreet about the situation.
Jose Matutina
2023-12-03 20:20:11 +0000 UTCI laughed so hard at the "Aren't you excited to watch another show with 2 white gay men in it?" Yupp.
beacan
2023-11-24 10:26:29 +0000 UTCWatched the first episode last night and I was just imagining your reactions and laughing so hard. Then came and watched your reaction this morning and … yep … just as I thought 😂😂😂 can’t wait to watch the rest of the series with you.
David Watt
2023-11-14 11:16:30 +0000 UTCI just came here to say the same thing about the parallels of what we're seeing now with the Governments attitude to the trans community. The fact that we can see parallels between attitudes from the 50s and attitudes today just shows how much more progress the world still needs to make 😔
Louise Poole 🍂
2023-11-13 20:00:51 +0000 UTChttps://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a45657517/fellow-travelers-sex-scenes-explained/ This was a really interesting read about the mechanics of the intimate scenes - especially Matt Bomer’s improvisation in the first sex scene with Hawk and Tim.
Jenny Lukan
2023-11-11 06:42:25 +0000 UTC"Get the fan out! Get the fan out NOW!!!" Oh Josh! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jacqueline Hahn
2023-11-09 19:47:37 +0000 UTCFinally got round to watching this and really enjoyed your reaction to it! I'd love to see you react to Nuovo Olimpo - just released on Netflix. It's similar to this in that it shows different eras, I'll admit I did cry at the end, but also definitely needed a fan for some scenes too lol! I also just wanted to add that I love that you're reacting to this because I think it's really important that queer history is shown, both to educate people on what's happened historically, but also because it helps people to see the parallels with the same things happening today. Hearing some of those awful things from politicians in the 1950's and the 1980's reminded me of the things we're hearing now in the UK and US (especially about the Trans community) - not to mention the countries around the world where it's still illegal to be who you are. Hopefully, with new shows representing the history in a new light it will help people to learn more about our communities history. I know I'll be looking up some things I heard in this episode that I wasn't aware of so I'm definitely learning from it! Thank you both x
Sarah Vallance (Accessible Yoga with Sarah)
2023-11-09 19:30:19 +0000 UTCcracking me up with the fan and they way ya’ll stop all conversation when it gets spicy. i also wikipedia’d this whole thing after watching the first ep as i had never heard of the lavender scare before. so disgusting and infuriating that this is our history. loving the show so far though.
AG
2023-11-09 17:51:02 +0000 UTCAre you reacting to kinnporche serie
Siv
2023-11-09 16:31:45 +0000 UTCTotally agree with this suggestion.
SA 'Baz' Collins
2023-11-08 23:57:00 +0000 UTCYou guys should react to the series ELITE on netflex> it is absolutely fantastic.
JASON ALEXANDER
2023-11-07 09:01:29 +0000 UTC#"get the fan now!!!" had me on the floor with laughter
JASON ALEXANDER
2023-11-07 09:00:03 +0000 UTCIf you lived thru it, and know & care about people who are struggling, how can you not get it? Just because I didn’t experience something myself doesn’t mean I don’t have family or loved ones who did. I have friends who died of aids, I know gay men who married women because being gay was so “abnormal” they didn’t even think they were. I know that seems incredibly strange by today’s standards, but that’s how it was & that’s how far we’ve come. And it’s one reason this show is so fucking difficult to watch. It was real!
gailanno
2023-11-06 22:01:32 +0000 UTCReagan was a jumpscare for me even said the devil out loud 😬
Joanna
2023-11-06 16:41:33 +0000 UTCI’m so excited for this. Also minute 55, your faaaaces! I cannot. 🤣
Jennifer
2023-11-05 20:51:49 +0000 UTCI second this! It shows trans experiences particularly well which is something so underrepresented in media. Every episode was an emotional rollercoaster but was done so beautifully
myles
2023-11-05 16:50:14 +0000 UTCLoving the reactions and can't wait to watch the rest of the series with you. I was in my 20's during the 1980's and remember oh to well attending memorials for friends lost way to soon and to now be in my 60's which I never expected to see. I lived in Atlanta, and we had a gay weekly newspaper and to read memorials for people I didn't know but had seen in the clubs having a great time just a month before. It was a dreadful time mentally to live through. If you have access to Hulu I hightly recommend watching When We Rise Academy-Award winner Dustin Lance Black executive produces this miniseries chronicling the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of diverse LGBT activists who played integral roles in pioneering their leg of the U.S. civil rights movement from its infancy. The story focuses on AIDS and LGBT rights champion Cleve Jones, women's rights leader Roma Guy and her wife, Diane, African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and transgender activist Celia Chung, following them from the Stonewall riots in 1969 through the AIDS epidemic of the '80s and beyond.
Mark Heidel
2023-11-05 16:45:15 +0000 UTCOmg how did I not notice them ?!
Dd44🩷💜💙
2023-11-05 13:40:31 +0000 UTCI would LOVE to see you react to POSE. It is an amazing series and focuses on the black gay and trans community in the 80s and 90s in NYC.
Amanda Graham
2023-11-05 08:52:45 +0000 UTCfun fact! the two in the scene at the end “the twinks” ahah are canadian youtubers dion and sebb
Grace Pryor
2023-11-05 01:59:55 +0000 UTCHi! I'm a longtime viewer of your YouTube channel but I knew I had to subscribe here for this series. I'm so excited for it and to see your reactions! Things to keep in mind while watching: as hinted in Hawk's comments about "handsy" Joe, it has long been suspected that McCarthy himself was hiding homosexual tendencies, drug addictions, and alcoholism (all things he decried in his big press conference at the end). It is also all but confirmed that Roy Cohn, who went on to become the trusted mentor of another infamous fearmongering bigot, Donald Trump, was a closeted self-hating gay man and he too succumbed to AIDS.
Scott Friedman
2023-11-05 00:40:04 +0000 UTCAnd that thinking, that queerness is something you are, not just something you do, is relatively new. Even in the late 90s, when I was in college, I remember thinking that gayness is fine for other people but not for me, that being straight was something I chose, like my favorite food or favorite color. I had a manager who is gay who said if it was a choice, who would choose to be gay? To have society hate you and think you were a threat to kids and have the threat of being attacked or even killed because you liked the same sex? To be on guard all the time. No one would willing choose that. He said that if he could choose to be straight he would, because it would make his life a whole heck of a lot easier and safer.
MaryBeth Gay
2023-11-04 15:38:57 +0000 UTCAnd he was Trump's mentor, which explains a lot as well.
Darrin Bodner
2023-11-04 15:38:55 +0000 UTCMy mom had an uncle who was questioned by McCarthy's committee. It was a dark period and people were paranoid ALL the damn time. My mom had more stories about the 60s and the civil right movement because she lived in Chicago at the time and she remembered the sky burning orange from all the fires after MLK's assassination. It's easy to see the escalation from the repressed 1950s where you had to be secretive about everything to the explosion of activism and violence of the 1960s.
MaryBeth Gay
2023-11-04 15:27:12 +0000 UTCJust read about him. Woah. What a scum. And scum is an understatement.
Jennifer Carrigg
2023-11-04 15:22:46 +0000 UTCBahaha "I think we need a fan" took me out 🤣 IYKYK
Michael D
2023-11-04 15:13:00 +0000 UTCWow, this series is so good so far. I can’t wait to see the rest of the reactions to this. Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey wow. It’s going to be an emotional rollercoaster
Clash
2023-11-04 14:40:25 +0000 UTCI am so excited to watch this with the two of you. It's so heavy and makes my chest ache sometimes, just watching and imagining what people had to go through. I was born in the early 80s and didn't even come out till I was 21 and I had a hard time even then, so I can't imagine. I feel like Matt Bomer hasn't aged since White Collar. He's got some good genes. I'm so happy he's had so much success after his coming out (or sort of getting outed, I should say), I remember when it happened and I'm sure it wasn't easy. Jonathan Bailey blew me away, he deserves all the praise he's getting for this role and more. So happy to see queer men cast in this show. :)
Jamie
2023-11-04 04:45:57 +0000 UTCNot a snow globe, but a paperweight. I am really enjoying your insight into this show. The time period was very sad for us and to think they want to take us back to that time. If it happens in the US it will happen everywhere, and just when the world is opening its eyes and hearts.
D.A. Rowley
2023-11-04 03:16:19 +0000 UTCI love that Mary Johnson is going to be a lesbian in the show - if I remember correctly it was subtly implied in the book but wasn’t confirmed. She was my favorite character in the book. She had such a loving/big sister friendship with Tim and tough love friendship with Hawk, which is already showing in episode 1. Her subtle way of asking Hawk about Tim by asking him about the book and then trying to warn Hawk not to do what he usually does because Tim seems sincere.
Jenny Lukan
2023-11-03 23:50:08 +0000 UTCI think Matt Bomer is the bomb 💣.... I know because I have seen him in White Collar and The Normal Heart and I still think about both a lot and often so he clearly makes impact 💣
Michaela Morávková
2023-11-03 22:53:33 +0000 UTCI haven’t watched the show before so I’m going to be watching it with you 😁
Nina
2023-11-03 22:16:47 +0000 UTCI think it's very difficult to look at the behaviour and lifestyle of these characters through the lens of 21st century gay rights and social mores and have an objective opinion. Concerning the show, I loved it. I loved the look of it, the story, the acting and of course it's got Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey in it. And sadly I don't have a fan so I just melted 😅. X
Pip
2023-11-03 22:06:13 +0000 UTCFellow Travelers and My Policeman: Compare and contrast.
Hugh Campbell
2023-11-03 21:58:19 +0000 UTCThis series is going to be *epic*.
Rachel (she her)
2023-11-03 21:26:34 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed rewatching this through the ASWT lens. Every time I’ve watched this episode I’ve really felt for Tim. I’ve been on a similar journey with faith and sexuality and still am very much on it. I would say that whilst things are slowly but surely beginning to progress in that area, it really struck me just how much I related to the things he said about his faith and just how relatable that whole thing still is even now, including how much the existence of non straight people in the church is still up for contention- my friendship group shows me that we definitely exist in large numbers 😅. Also does anyone else get a bit emotional when Hawk is waiting for Tim to call back? It felt like a yearning and a sense of what could have been if they had met later down the line. Looking forward to seeing how this all plays out, the book was hard going in places and I bet this show will be too.
NessaC
2023-11-03 20:07:05 +0000 UTCOkay I really enjoyed your reactions and thoughts to this. And yes, it is VERY saucy haha. My initial response to Hawk was very like Josh’s - I just don’t like him, and I do think he’s set up as a character for you to not like, but then to sort of challenge how we’re seeing him and anyone like him from the time. And I liked what you had to say, Alex, about having to accept both of them given the time and the circumstances they were facing and navigating. I think both can be true. And if we are serious when we say that a person’s sexuality isn’t the whole story about them, then I think we also have to leave room for them to prioritize other things in their lives. I don’t know where it will go with them, but it seems like Hawk is prioritizing his work and ability to make an impact in the political sphere over his personal life. And wanting to have a family at that time … I mean they had no indication that it would even be possible in their lifetimes to live an out and authentic gay life AND have a family. So if you wanted that, I can’t imagine from my privileged current day position how impossible that would have seemed. I do think even the way they interact during sex reinforced Hawk as being the one with all the power and almost abasing Tim and treating him as lesser, which yeah … I don’t like that dynamic with them. Tim seems to be playing into it a bit (see the teaser scene) but I’m not sure he knows how that’s going to play out in the long term. VERY curious to see where this goes! I’m invested.
Jacqui Chesterton
2023-11-03 18:13:21 +0000 UTCYou guys should to read about Roy Cohn before the next episode. I think it will enhance your viewing experience.
Darrin Bodner
2023-11-03 17:47:27 +0000 UTCI am SO GLAD you’re doing this show!! The first ep blew me away and I think we’re in for a very emotional ride.
Kate
2023-11-03 17:32:43 +0000 UTC10/10 for visuals (meaning Matt Bomer & Jonathan Bailey 🔥)
Henry Riley
2023-11-03 17:19:15 +0000 UTCwhat a great show! 🔥 ❤️
Jennifer Carrigg
2023-11-03 17:17:16 +0000 UTCOne of the important things to remember, I think, particularly when considering queerness pre-1970s in the West, is that for the most part most people considered queerness something you did, rather than necessarily something you were (except when using it pejoratively). It's why so many of the characters have what reads today as internalized homophobia (and it definitely was) - because almost none of these men thought of themselves as "gay" as we understand it. They mostly considered themselves affiicted by unwanted urges (although given Tim's statement about his anger with God, I suspect he's further along in comprehending queerness as identity rather than activity).
Joseph Carriker
2023-11-03 16:46:53 +0000 UTCIf ur not male or gay living in that time how can u get it ?
Dd44🩷💜💙
2023-11-03 16:37:04 +0000 UTCTim is a bit reckless in his actions, and hawk is more careful thought out. They can lose their jobs especially at hawks high position and it’s so difficult. I get both of them but in this time you have to be more careful . I loved ur gasps during those scenes godd they were serving Matt and Jonathan or too sexy I had to catch my breath when I first watched the ep now 5 TIMESS guilty. I’m already obsessed with this series nonetheless it’s such great representation
Dd44🩷💜💙
2023-11-03 16:36:26 +0000 UTCOh, you two make me smile!
Amira Mustapha
2023-11-03 16:30:13 +0000 UTCThis is already such a powerful series. Yes, it's very sexual and erotic at times, but the deeper message of finding love and navigating two completely separate lives during an age of severe queer oppression is really what is at the core here. I have no doubt that this will be a hard watch at times, but my hope is, by the end, it'll be a story of love and self acceptance. We shall see!
Chris Metzger
2023-11-03 16:29:02 +0000 UTCThree things: a) gonna have to disagree with you. I have every right to hate Hawk. His motives for getting Tim his job were dubious (it wasn’t “gays helping gays”), he’s not living his “authentic life,” so far his motives have been selfish. (That may have come out harsher than I mean it to be—I love you guys, but I lived thru this, but I’m not male nor gay.
gailanno
2023-11-03 16:27:46 +0000 UTCI've been waiting all week for your reaction to this episode. When I first saw it I got very emotional because I really feel for Tim. It hurts so much when you can't choose love because of all the circumstances. That realy sucks. 😔❤️ Thank you for your reaction, it was as awesome as always. ❤️😘
Steffi K.
2023-11-03 16:21:56 +0000 UTCLooking forward to your thoughts on the rest of the series! This first episode is so well done, beautiful acting and cinematography.
Liz F.
2023-11-03 16:20:27 +0000 UTCAlex and Josh you did not disappoint!!! Thank you guys! 🪭🪭🦶🪭🪭🫶🌈
Diane Furlong
2023-11-03 16:11:44 +0000 UTCYou guys are such a mood! 😅 luv it!
Henry Riley
2023-11-03 15:59:17 +0000 UTCOh! Looking forward to this show. Haven't seen the first episode yet (will tonight) then come back to enjoy your reactions 😀 Thanks for the double upload today! I've said it before: You're spoiling us! ❤️
Stian Kristoffersen
2023-11-03 15:38:22 +0000 UTCJust watched E1 last night. Can't wait to watch your analysis and reactions to this!
M
2023-11-03 15:26:09 +0000 UTCHa ha 12:45 I was waiting for that reaction 😂
Diane Furlong
2023-11-03 15:02:13 +0000 UTCAlex your mug 😆💗
Jacqui Chesterton
2023-11-03 14:52:59 +0000 UTCThanks for sorting it so quickly 😀 Looking forward to to this, got my rainbow fan ready! 🪭🏳️🌈
Ali Laura
2023-11-03 14:49:54 +0000 UTCYou were just teasing us with the first edit! 🤣🤣 We got there in the end! Happy to be waiting for this edit, it's 2am here but I'm reeaaddyyy!!! 😍😍🇦🇺
Nikki Hearn
2023-11-03 14:48:04 +0000 UTCAlex it looks like you may have cut your hair?
Diane Furlong
2023-11-03 14:47:40 +0000 UTCUpdated so quickly 👏🏽 🫶🏽
NessaC
2023-11-03 14:47:37 +0000 UTCThanks for making it all better, Alex! Okay let’s go Kids! 🪭🪭🪭
Diane Furlong
2023-11-03 14:45:21 +0000 UTCTake 2. Thanks guys!
Chris Mackenzie
2023-11-03 14:44:36 +0000 UTC
