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Fellow Travelers – Limited Series, Episode 4 Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire

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Fellow Travelers – Limited Series, Episode 4

Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire

Aired Nov 19, 2023

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Facing a polygraph test about his sex life, Hawk courts Lucy; Marcus makes peace with his attraction to Frankie; Roy threatens to destroy the Army when David is drafted; Tim recruits Hawk to help his AIDS activist group.

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Ron Nyswaner

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Matt Bomer

Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller

Jonathan Bailey

Tim Laughlin

Noah J. Ricketts

Frankie Hines

Will Brill

Roy Cohn

Allison Williams

Lucy Smith

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Terry Mesnard

Gayly Dreadful

11/20/2024

["Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire" is] probably the best episode since the original because it feels more confident in the audience than previous episodes suggested.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

11/21/2023

In the fourth episode of Fellow Travelers, we get a better understanding of just how much people have changed in the thirty-plus years that span the story, and what may have led some of them to change so drastically.

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Cade Taylor

Tell-Tale TV

11/21/2023

4.5/5

I love the details and time dedication to Marcus’ storyline and his screen time with Frankie, making sure the story of black queer people in the 50s is told with care.

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Paul Dailly

TV Fanatic

11/21/2023

4.5/5

Another stellar episode of this Showtime limited series.

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Coleman Spilde

The Daily Beast

11/17/2023

While Episode 4 doles out plenty of old-fashioned, ’50s-era Christmas cheer, it also dispenses an abundance of dramatic tension.

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Joe Lipsett

Gayly Dreadful

11/17/2023

“Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is the best episode since the pilot. In large part that’s because we’ve invested enough in our “villains/antagonists” that the Cohn/Schine/McCarthy storylines don’t feel like they’re taking away from Hawk and Tim

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Synopsis

Facing a polygraph test about his sex life, Hawk courts Lucy; Marcus makes peace with his attraction to Frankie; Roy threatens to destroy the Army when David is drafted; Tim recruits Hawk to help his AIDS activist group.

Creator: Ron Nyswaner
Executive Producer: Matt Bomer, Ron Nyswaner, Robbie Rogers, Dee Johnson
Screenwriter: Anya Leta
Network: Paramount+ with Showtime
Genre: History, Drama, Romance, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date: Nov 19, 2023