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Steven Culp:

We did two versions of that S&M scene, one that was a little darker and a little edgier, and one where we didn't really see any paraphernalia. Rex and Maisy are having this conversation and ultimately, she starts tying him to the bed. A couple of weeks later, we shot the scene again and it was much better. We're having a conversation about what's going on with the kids and the family, as she's handling all this weird paraphernalia. When I watched it I thought, God, they're so sad and lost about this. He's confiding in her. He can't tell his wife about this fetish and he obviously loves his wife. It was sadder that I thought it was going to be.

Marc Cherry:

I wanted Rex to have a sexual secret, and I went back and forth on what it was. At first, I was thinking he might be gay. But I thought, Well, that's exactly like Far from Heaven. Marcia's a redhead, just like Julianne Moore. One of the writers came up with the idea that Rex only liked to have sex in filthy surroundings. I toyed with that one for about a day. But I didn't want it to be so bizarre that we couldn't come back from it. So I thought, How about some nice garden-variety S&M? I kept waiting for people to be shocked about it, but I haven't heard anything about it.