YMMV / Fellow Travelers

• Alternative Character Interpretation: When Hawk betrayed Tim to the M Unit, did he do it to protect Lucy and Jackson? Or was he ultimately looking out for his own interests (specifically, his career and his facade as a heterosexual family man), and using his family as a justification for his selfishness? Or to put it slightly differently: was the worst thing Hawk ever did at least motivated by a desire to protect his family, or was he thinking about himself and only himself, as per usual?
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Most of the attention that the series received was focused on the many graphic gay sex scenes between the two leads Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey.
• Friendly Fandoms: Anyone who's a fan of Interview with the Vampire (2022)'s first season will naturally be inclined to love this show. Although they're part of different genres (conventional drama vs. Gothic Horror), what they share in common is that they're both Queer Romance Period Pieces (the earlier Flashbacks are set during an era in the 20th century when homosexuality was illegal in America, and a lot of the Background Music are jazz songs) about two men who are in a toxic, forbidden, All Take and No Give, Lover and Beloved Secret Relationship, and the story constantly jumps back and forth between the past and the present. There are also some similarities between Hawk and Lestat de Lioncourt, and between Tim and Louis de Pointe du Lac.
  • Hawk and Lestat: older, handsome, has a smooth torso, Hollywood Atheist, unashamed about being attracted to men, promiscuous, domineering, Seme (although they both have one scene where they're extremely aroused by their beloved dominating them), Consummate Liar. They both feel Love at First Sight and seduce respectively the man who becomes their Second Love...
  • Tim and Louis: younger, Pretty Boy, has a hairy chest, Catholic (they both confess their sins to a priest), experiences Gayngst (although they both eventually come out of the closet), monogamist, submissive, Uke, Bad Liar. Their lover often addresses them with an Affectionate Nickname, they're both called a saint on one occasion, and they were held in a Bridal Carry. They're also treated as their lover's Property of Love.
  • Moreover, both Hawk and Lestat are self-serving and selfish; they're manipulative and withhold information; they love their mother, but hate their father; they keep a souvenir of their First Love, a young man who died in the past; they maintain a long-term relationship with a woman, but their true love is a man; they're Hypocrites because they have other sexual partners, but become very jealous when their beloved shows interest in someone else; they're guilty of Parental Hypocrisy and their child detests them; they've committed physical violence against a male lover.
  • Both Official Couples have a scene where they engage in violent foreplay which leads to rough sex as a result of one partner (who is clothed) possessively "claiming" the nude body of the other partner.
  • One partner never tells the other "I love you" in person, although they do admit their true feelings for their (ex-)boyfriend to someone else.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Craig acts like an immature jerk most of the time he is onscreen. However, he seems to have real feelings for Hawk, which Hawk does not return. This leads Craig to behave like a Love Martyr for Hawk: he leaves the house at Hawk's request so Hawk can have a romantic dinner with Tim, and later participates in a threesome with Tim and Hawk when he would clearly prefer to have Hawk to himself. When Hawk berates Craig for going through his things and taking a picture of Jackson out of an album, Craig tearfully tells Hawk "I wanted to know you."
  • Hawk is also this in episode 7. He abuses drugs and alcohol, and is inconsiderate (or worse) to Tim, Lucy, Craig, and his pregnant daughter Kimberly. He is also clearly in agony about the death of his son.

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