If you thought you'd seen all of "Aquarius," think again. Despite
releasing the full season a day after its premiere, NBC and production
companies have more for fans. As discussed in Indiewire interviews with the cast and
creator, an uncensored version of the first season will be available
soon on iTunes.
"There are two versions of every episode," McNamara said. "It started
with the fact that this was developed with a cable company before NBC,
and I could never shake that feeling of, 'I want to do it this way.' And Bob [Greenblatt] was great about saying, 'Do whatever you want, but you can't say 'fuck' and can't show cocks.'" (Costs of shooting two complete different versions were $12,000 for each episode.)
"There's the version you'll see on NBC and NBC.com, and then there's
the version you'll see on iTunes and in Europe. And they're different.
[...] Our thing was, this is not at all to be prurient. Nudity is part
of the '60s and the real sexuality of the '60s. Yes, the version you'll
see on NBC is sexual. The version you'll see on iTunes is NC-17."
"There's the cut, and then there's the fucking cut," Duchovny said. "So
there were some scenes [with] pivotal lines — I remember there was this
scene where I was yelling at Claire Holt's character, and I say, 'It's
not a fucking fairy tale.' And it was just the right line. We had to do
it both ways, obviously. But it wasn't normally written out that way.
The scripts were not written with that language, so there's not a lot of
added language. There's some."