Fellow Travelers
WARNING : SPOILERS in the lead for Fellow Travelers episode 6 .
Summary
Fellow Travelersepisode 6 jumps ahead to 1968 and bring in a great new theatrical role in Jackson Fuller ( Etienne Kellici ) . While most of the celebrated Showtime series has taken place during the early 1950s during the Lavender Scare in Washington D.C. , episode 6 is almost entirely pose in rural Pennsylvania as Tim escapes the law and Hawk , now a family man , examine to protect him . Withonly two episodes left ofFellow Travelers , Tim and Hawk are set to have one more escapadeduring the late 1970s before their lifelong hidden Romance language comes to an end .
While two of Hawk and Lucy ’s kids seem inFellow Travelersepisode 6 , the series is acutely focalise on Jackson and his involuntariness to enlist with his family . He is first seen arguing with his sister asHawk is on the earpiece with Marcus discuss Tim ’s legal position after he steal potation notice with a religious radical chemical group as a way to protest the Vietnam War . Jackson looks to his father for funding , but a disinterested Hawk reprimands Jackson over his girl Kimberly . This is the earliest sign of Jackson ’s smell of letdown and even hate for Hawk inFellow Travelersepisode 6 .
Hawk gets in hot water in Fellow Travelers sequence 4 with the notorious M Unit , a specialised division whose primary purpose was to identify " deviants " .
Jackson Fuller Is The Sensitive & Rebellious Son Of Hawk Fuller & Lucy Smith
Jackson writes poetry, commits petty crimes, and experiments with drugs
Jackson Fuller is played by Etienne Kellici , who made his feature article film entry in 2019’sReady or Not . On the control surface , Jackson is unlike Hawk in many ways , choose to spend his time alone in his room and at his dad ’s cabin , perpetually challenging his parents ' rules . Jackson is naturally anti - authoritarian and is also disclose to be a stealer after the police show up at Hawk ’s sign spread the intelligence about reports in the neighborhood . Jackson does n’t seem to conform to into his traditional family and is understandably the black-market sheep of the Fullers , specially compared to his cooky - cutter sis .
Rather than following a straight and narrow way of life , Jackson seeks out fulfillment in experimentation and writing poetry . An evident introvert , Jackson is unbelievably sensible and believe that his dad is too rigid and integrated , making it very difficult for the two of them to link up candidly . Jackson is a dead on target somebody , which is fundamentally true of the real Hawk Fuller underneath his kin military man , straight - edged frontage . If Jackson only sleep together the true statement about who Hawk really is , especially through the loving eyes of Tim , then he would be able to trust and depend on his sire more sturdily .
Fellow Travelers offer a lifelike depiction of the historically telecast Army - McCarthy hearings , which play a key part in the fall of McCarthyism .
How Jackson’s Hatred For Hawk & Friendship With Tim Reveals His True Character
Jackson Only Knows Hawk’s Projected Image As A Rigid & Conservative Father
If there is anyone who could convince Jackson about the inherent good inside Hawk inFellow Travelers , it ’s Tim Laughlin . The two get the luck to meet as Tim hides out in Hawk ’s cabin down the route from his master planetary house . Tim return to notice Jackson pointing a gun at him , nervously explain that he ’s a supporter of Hawk ’s . Jackson , who despite his criminal behavior is quite good - natured , sense that Tim is tell the trueness and lays the weapon down . Tim and Jackson start to connect on a real level , revealing how ill Jackson need someone to talk to about his struggles and his dad .
Hawk ’s true character is so hidden from his household that Jackson is force to see him as a negligent and unsympathetic father . Tim , who knows the quality of love that Hawk is capable of , does n’t give away too much selective information as he explain to Jackson thatHawk does truly have sex him in the best agency he sleep together how . Jackson ’s hatred of his dada is fuel by the Lie he know he tells him and his family . Tim stick to up for Hawk , state Jackson that everybody lies . This show a complete modification in character in Tim from when he was an grand college grad before he converge Hawk .
Senator Smith made a shameful and tragic decision in Fellow Travelers sequence 5 after being pay an ultimatum to choose between his calling & his son .
What Jackson Means When He Tells Hawk He Thinks Something’s Wrong With Him
Jackson Could Ironically Be Fighting His Own Battle With His Identity Formation
After open up to Tim and put on perspective about his father ’s attack at loving him , Jackson tries to talk to Hawk about some of the shipway he ’s been feel . Hawk is unrestrained to see that Jackson is a promising poet and agrees to keep the arcanum about necessitate LSD between the two of them . After this display of trustingness , Jackson separate his pa that he believe there is something wrong with him . These sentiment would explain some of Jackson ’s disaffected behaviors as signs he is struggling with his identity operator formation . The last two episodes ofFellow Travelerscould expand Jackson ’s inner convulsion and reveal that he and Hawk are much more alike than they may seem .
