While “The Hunting Wives” is filled with fun, campy moments, at its core there is a lot of darkness, mostly centered around the murder of a teenager named Abby.

One dark scene in particular was “really hard” for two of its stars, according to Malin Åkerman .

“Once we were done with the scene, I ended up just sobbing,” she tells TODAY.com.

In the show, Åkerman plays east Texas royalty, Margo Banks , who is in a flexible marriage with businessman and politician Jed Banks (Dermot Mulroney). Jed and Margo allow each other to sleep with partners outside of their relationship, as long as they are women. Margo breaks one of their rules when she starts a relationship with one of her friends’ sons, Brad, who is just 18.

Jed and Margo had struggled to conceive, but with Brad she gets pre

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