The series premiered on October 29, 2023, on Showtime following an October 27 release on Paramount+ with Showtime. Starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, it centers on the decades-long romance between two men who first meet during the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s. The series received positive reviews from critics. It was named among the best television shows of 2023 by several publications.
Hawkins Fuller (Bomer) and Timothy Laughlin (Bailey) start a volatile romance that spans "the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s"