Over the years, Tom Segura has established himself as a powerhouse comedian in Hollywood. In specials like 2014’s Completely Normal, to the beloved Sledgehammer in 2023, Segura has made a name for himself as an unfiltered, crass comedian who delivers unapologetic and wild takes time and time again. So, of course, it’s perhaps no surprise that his TV show on Netflix is not only hilarious, but one of the darkest comedies on the streaming platform.
First premiered on May 13, 2025, Bad Thoughts is Segura’s take on Black Mirror, an anthology series (with more stories than just one in each episode) where no one is safe, especially not the viewer. The second season of the series just premiered on May 24, 2026, and it continues to be one of Netflix’s most divisive series of all time.
What Is ‘Bad Thoughts’ About?
Consisting of six episodes in each season, Segura’s Bad Thoughts follows stories divided into certain universal themes: jobs, success, family, love, and more. In each episode, Segura stars in fleshed-out, fully produced sketches, and every single one is highly inappropriate in its own way. Among them are him playing a country music star turned cult leader Rex Henley, a pants-soiling hitman who takes out the wrong person, and even an entire sketch of him impersonating Steven Seagal. Some sketches can be highly cinematic too, including one spoof of an A24 movie trailer that actually feels like the real deal up until we see Segura playing a cartoonish Italian immigrant, performing lewd acts on senior citizens.
In addition to callbacks to his early material, like an immensely awkward conversation on an airplane, or his father’s Vietnam War stories being adapted into a very problematic children’s play, Segura introduces a whole new gamut of stories and characters. In each one, he sticks to a relatively low-brow comedy, including scatological humor and sex jokes with an extra helping of dark comedy. In addition to Segura, the series also stars Robert Iler, Johnny Pemberton, Kirk Fox, Dan Stevens, Malin Barr, Daniella Pineda and Arturo Castro.
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
04
You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
‘Bad Thoughts’ Is One of Netflix’s Most Controversial Titles
A Bearded Tom Segura in Bad Thoughts.Image via Netflix
When the first season of Bad Thoughts was first released, Collider’s very own Nate Richard was impressed. Not only did the series score an impressive 8/10, but the review celebrated the series’ originality and excitement. “It’s not that the series goes out of its way to offend, but it is unafraid of making the viewer feel disgusted or repulsed to the point of reaching for their remote,” Richard wrote. “There’s never a dull moment, given that the show constantly attempts to escalate itself within each sketch.”
With that said, however, not all critics agree. To this day, Bad Thoughts Season 1 has a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from the critics, as well as a 67% rating from the audience. Among the reviews, critics found the series to be too low-brow and insulting to add anything new and interesting to the genre. “Bad Thoughts isn’t just a bad show—it’s a patience test. It’s crude, juvenile, and completely unhinged,” wrote one review. “Instead of serving the humor of a given sketch, the transgressiveness substitutes for humor—and shock value for its own sake only goes so far before it grows stale,” echoed another review.
Since its premiere, Segura’s venture away from comedy specials has been divisive and controversial. After all, while his crass and crude jokes might hit the spot for the audience, especially his already longtime fans, the series is not one for the weak, and airs on the side of shock and disgust to drive home its storylines. Bad Thoughts is cringey and at times hard to look at, but something tells us that’s exactly what Segura was hoping for.
