At the same time as the protests against the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco culture of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, the two men’s love intensifies, despite the constant threat of being exposed and losing everything.
– It’s a dramatized queer history lesson, says Linus Fremin.
Starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. The series is based on the book of the same title, written by Thomas Mallon.
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