Netflix ‘Bad Thoughts’ Season 2 Review - Gross-Out Comedy Done Right

The second season of Bad Thoughts opens with a doctor complimenting Tom Segura on the first season, saying he liked the episode involving a barista. They discuss how annoying such coffee shop experiences can be, and Segura remarks that he wishes he could do in real life what he did in the show. Suddenly—as if to grant Segura his wish—the doctor takes out a pill that destroys your impulse control, allowing you to become brash, reckless, and unfiltered. Segura takes the pill, and what follows is a wild sequence in which he kicks an old lady, has sex in an alley, steals a gun from a police officer, and presses a man's face into dog shit. It's Segura's way of setting your expectations and preparing you for what's to come. The whole show operates as if it's high on that doctor's pill, which means it's futile to look for "good manners."

Like the first season, Season 2 of Bad Thoughts arrives with a new collection of crude, demented, R-rated comedy sketches. If the idea of watching a bit where a Black slave pretends to be gay in order to free himself from slavery sounds offensive to you, you should probably stay away from this series. Segura's sense of humor is almost identical to Bert Kreischer's. Both comedians shove their heads into ticklish topics with enormous glee. Yet it should be noted that they never come across as disgusting or mean-spirited. Consider the episode where the bodies of a man's wife and daughter are swapped in Freaky Friday fashion. Segura's sex-centric jokes here are fairly obvious, yet the incredible sincerity with which he and the other actors play the body-swap routine makes the whole scene funny to watch.

"Funny" is the word you can apply to all these stories. If I had to pick the one I liked the most—the one that's still making me smile hours later—I would go with the story where Segura's character farts in the car and then refuses to let the woman he loves get inside. She wants to open her heart and tell him she loves him, probably with a passionate kiss to follow, but the character simply can't allow her to breathe the same air as him. How determined is this version of Segura? Well, he refuses to open the car door even when it starts raining or when shady men and wolves—literal wolves—begin approaching the woman who only wants to confess her love to him. What's more, just when you think the story can't get any weirder or more unpredictable, it basically says, "Hold my beer," and becomes even weirder and more unpredictable. It ends with an explosion.

There are some very neat transitions from one segment to another, such as the move from a bloody dog-and-soldier reunion to a fertility clinic where a couple tries to get pregnant. I especially liked the transition from a bit involving an intimacy coordinator to one where two people discuss the appropriate signal for telling the other person when to shoot someone. Still, the main reason Bad Thoughts works is that you never know what will happen next—the crazy meter rises within seconds. You're never sure what the next moment will bring, and the surprise is, more often than not, sufficiently hilarious and wildly unexpected. Bad Thoughts is filled with gleefully gross humor.

Final Score - [7/10]
Reviewed by - Vikas Yadav
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Publisher at Midgard Times