Reacting to Fellow Travelers - Episode 8 (Season Finale!) ... BRING TISSUES 😭
Added 2023-12-17 22:43:29 +0000 UTCGoooood evening beautiful Patreon family,
Apologies this one is a little later than normal - I have had a mad weekend and then I needed to take a little time after the episode was done before I could bring myself to edit it.
Strap yourselves in for this incredible show to come to an end...
Full breakdown video coming soon... ♥️
Comments
I watched this show a few weeks ago and this episode broke me. However a bit of time away from it made me realise something about the hospital scene when Lucy went to see Time. If you think about it, it's kind of fascinating. Each of them want what the other one has. Lucy wants to be fully loved by Hawk - not just platonically loved. She wants to feel that intense desire that Hawk has shown Tim time and time again. The deep and burning love that Hawk has for him. Lucy so desperately wants it, but has never had it. Tim on the other hand wanted time and openness and no need to hide his relationship with Hawk. He only had Hawk for these intense patches but never the years in between that he so desperately wants. Lucy had it, and Tim didn't get it. The two mirrors.
Helen Knight
2024-03-10 21:21:01 +0000 UTCI love your reactions but this one would break me !!! ;)
Prinsassy
2024-02-13 15:07:54 +0000 UTCI really can not watch this series with you... Your emotions are so intense and I can´t deal with it. I´ve watched it with Brad and a Story worth telling and that was already tough !!! I
Prinsassy
2024-02-13 15:06:37 +0000 UTCBeautiful and very emotional, every time I have watched, I cry. I can remember hearing about the terrible McCarthy/Roy Cohn era. They were such horrible monsters, to do all this evil to innocent people. I can remember in the early seventies, we couldn’t find an apartment that would rent to my girlfriend and I, we would hide our private lives from the workplace. Yet we marched for equality in the streets of Southern California.The love of my life and I broke up in 1984, she came back into my life in 2011 and we married on February 11, 2017, we have a beautiful wedding and came out to my friends at work. Times are better however we need to continue to fight and not let them take our rights that we have fought so hard to get. The Normal Heart is another good one to watch concerning the aids virus, also a beautiful love story.
Magical Adorabella
2024-02-05 05:10:02 +0000 UTCThere is so much to unpack with this show. So many details and layers. It’s been a week since I’ve finished watching it and not only I’m still thinking about it as I realise things that I didn’t while I was watching. To think that the last time Hawk and Tim made love was in the fifties, as we find out in this episode, just before the betrayal and Jackson’s birth. Just after Hawk giving up his position of perceived control by bottoming for the first and only time to Tim. They had a masturbation scene in the 60s and almost a threesome in the 70s, but they never made love again. And their love lasted with the same depth and strength for 30 years after that. It’s so nuanced. Beautifully written and done. One of the best shows I’ve watched in long time, to say the least.
Nuno Frade
2024-01-26 17:03:25 +0000 UTCThis was by far one of the greatest shows I’ve ever watched. It was a beautiful story.
Jennifer Williams
2024-01-02 21:42:06 +0000 UTCI am so grateful that you talked about Lucy‘s situation as well. Everytime I saw her I had to think about my grandma, they have so much in common 😔
Wiebke Kempa
2023-12-21 17:06:03 +0000 UTCHuge Hugs Jackie! This was such a beautiful, powerful series. We all had a pretty good idea of part of the outcome of the series. It was so tastefully done. Yes, I cried some but I’m at peace with the ending. Thank You for your Heartfelt reaction Jackie.
Diane Furlong
2023-12-19 03:21:31 +0000 UTCI agree that this is a god way to end Hawk and Tim's relationship but I would love a second season that explores Marcus and Frankie's relationship and the mixture of racism and homophobia they experienced. I always found that a really interesting dynamic and it would mean that we wouldn't have to lose sight of Tim and Hawk but they can become the secondary storyline. I would also like to see the secretary becoming a congressperson. Basically I think that this story was so powerful but we are still looking through the lens of cis white men. I would love this to continue and centre other aspects of the queer experience in the US.
Rosie Dickinson
2023-12-19 01:31:57 +0000 UTCI agree, the last episode was so beautifully and tastefully done while wrapping up everyone’s storylines.
Diane Furlong
2023-12-18 09:28:32 +0000 UTCI'm sorry in advance if this gets too long and/or personal. I've been having a lot of feelings since I watched this and I haven't put them down anywhere really. I'm so glad that we know more about HIV/AIDS now than we did back then, but it never should've gotten to where it did to begin with. I wish I could say I'm surprised that the government was willing to make queer people the sacrificial lambs, but I'm not shocked at all because they did the same thing with COVID. I'm not saying that COVID is as bad as HIV or anything of the sort, but I'm saying that the government didn't care if entire minorities and groups of vulnerable people got wiped out again. And I'm sure they'll do it again and continue to do it until long after I'm gone because people in power do not care about us (well, most of them don't). I have two very best friends who are gay and married to each other and I know we're in the age of prep and everything, but I always tell them to be very safe and careful when I know they're going to Fire Island or Pride or somewhere just in general because one, you never know what could happen and two, the healthcare system sucks here in the states and three, the government will let them die. I'm queer too (and in a wheelchair), so I tell myself that as well. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I do not trust governments to do the right thing, and even more so after watching this show and learning more about these things since I was born in 83. I'm so grateful for advocates and people like you, Jackie, who speak out for the right things because I can't always be out there myself. I try to speak out for people though, even if it's just online, since I can't always be pounding pavement with my friends the way I would like to. Anyway, about the show, I ugly cried through the whole thing. I am glad that it seems like Hawk got to a place where he can be honest with Kimberly and himself. That's all I wanted for him. I watched an interview with Matt Bomer where he said at the end, Hawk lost the love of his life at 63 and is in many ways just coming to terms with who he is, or some words to that degree and that's what I got from it too. Like this 63-year-old finally gets to be himself and now he doesn't have Tim and that made me cry more and think about wasted time in my own life. I've had a "great, consuming love" as well when I was younger, but I messed it up because I was young and stupid and didn't know what I was doing back then (I don't really know now, either, tbh) and just loving someone that much terrified me when I wasn't out then, so I messed it up royally. She and I have tried to be together twice in my life when we were younger, and both times it was me who messed it up and gave a reason to leave. I am a lot like Hawk (except I don't intentionally try to hurt people), so maybe that's why watching this series has gotten to me. it's making me think about all my regrets, LOL. Just like Tim, I've had other relationships and I have loved people, but none of them have been the love like it was with her. I'm not sure if she feels the same way because it's one of those things we don't mention but watching this series has made me wonder. Which I am disgusted about, lol. But yeah, full on sobbing through that entire scene till the credits. I also cried during the Marcus and Jerome basketball scene because that also needed to be said!! I wanted to hug everyone on that quilt and the quit itself and just cry. Tim really is the best of us. I think this show should be required viewing for anyone in their twenties and up. It's that good. And if it doesn't win all the awards, I am going to be very upset. I don't know if anyone is going to have the balls (excuse my language) to give them awards for something like this, even though it's been nominated already. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Either way, I will not be forgetting about this show for a long time. Thanks for letting me ramble. I may come back with more show thoughts once I can think about it without crying, lol. Take care, Jackie. I appreciate you. :)
Jamie
2023-12-18 06:27:42 +0000 UTCI saw an interview with Matt Bomer. That was Roy Cohn’s actual square on the quilt.
Rosalynn Aliberti
2023-12-18 05:59:34 +0000 UTCI cried so much… this show left me speechless 💔
Frances
2023-12-18 04:26:15 +0000 UTCUgly cry here...... definately up there as a favourite. Such important story to tell and keep on telling. Loved your commenting as always. Thank you 🩷
Katie Greet
2023-12-18 01:33:51 +0000 UTCI ugly cried during this ep. Full on sobbed.
Jamie
2023-12-18 01:13:57 +0000 UTCI watched this twice before watching with you here, and still, still I can’t stop weeping. I live in San Francisco and earlier this year several portions of the quilt were laid out in Golden Gate Park. There were so many Skippys. Gosh, I love them all.
Powder Blue
2023-12-18 01:08:03 +0000 UTCI can’t come up with words right now either…Jonathan Bailey had better get Emmy, SAG, and all the other awards…
Erin
2023-12-18 01:07:42 +0000 UTCThis story has been all the emotions. I was only a kid in the 80s do don't really remember knowing too much about it at the time. However once Freddie Mercury passed away from the disease I realised what a devastating disease it is. My heart goes out to everyone. I don't have the words to express feelings. 💜💜💜💜
Sharonne Dutton
2023-12-18 00:46:28 +0000 UTCJackie I’ve been out all day. I’ll watch with you in the morning.
Diane Furlong
2023-12-18 00:28:34 +0000 UTCI don’t know if you’ve seen it but there is a video of Matt and Jonathon explaining the last episode on YouTube. There is also an adorable video with them and puppies, also on YouTube 😊
Audrey Gunn
2023-12-18 00:14:03 +0000 UTCI just want to say thank you to you Jackie because if you hadn’t reacted to it I would never have seen it 🥰 From episode 1 through to episode 8 I have loved watching Hawk and Tim and I’ve cried so much, more than I ever have at any tv show before. This ending was handled with such care and Hawk telling his daughter Tim was the man he loved was the best place to stop, he finally felt free enough to be himself even if it was just to his daughter. Truly wonderful and poignant story that was very well told ❤️
Audrey Gunn
2023-12-18 00:11:50 +0000 UTCI’ve loved the whole series but I think this last episode was truly beautiful. I think Tim eventually knew how much Hawk loved him and Hawk himself was ready to be his authentic self. If only he’d had the courage to do it earlier. Everything about this was first class , the script , the look and of course the actors . Thanks for your reactions ❤️
Lynn0816
2023-12-18 00:10:31 +0000 UTCi cried from when this episode started to when it finished so i haven’t fully processed my emotions either but all i can say is that this show is easily one of, if not the best i have ever watched and am so so grateful that it was made and handled with such love and care 🫶🫶
Olivia
2023-12-17 23:42:08 +0000 UTCOoohhh....so ready 🩷⭐️ tissues in hand 🩷😭
Katie Greet
2023-12-17 22:45:32 +0000 UTC
