‘Unhinged’ TV series compared to Little Britain is back to horrify fans

Last year, Netflix viewers were left divided over the release of comedian Tom Segura’s ‘hilariously disturbing’ series Bad Thoughts – now it’s back with a second helping.

Widely compared to Little Britain when it first came out, the ‘twisted’ first season featured six 20-minute vignettes exploring darkly comedic and provocative themes.

Just to give you a taste: In one, Tom plays fading country music star Rex Henley, who kidnaps his fans and makes them reveal their darkest traumas to inspire his next song.

Meanwhile in the new season episodes include ‘a new wonder drug sending one man off the rails’, a ‘body swap that puts one dad between a rock and a hard place’ and ‘a believer’s trip to heaven not being what she prayed for’.

Bad Thoughts also stars actors like Jurassic Park’s Daniella Pineda, The Sopranos’ Robert Iler and Boardwalk Empire’s Shea Whigham.

At the time, on social media, some viewers understood the ‘genius in the madness’, while others branded the divisive show as ‘awful.’

Among the haters was @AgentJohnJD, who wrote: ‘Bad Thoughts is a show on #Netflix that if I were to describe it, there would be an immediate censorship across the board. I turned it off after the first episode. How on earth can someone even be able to imagine situations like that? I am shooketh.’

Echoing their sentiment, @ldsgolfer13 commented: ‘The new Tom Segura show on Netflix, Bad Thoughts, is just gross and unfunny. The “comedy” is over-the-top repeatable sex jokes, but taken to 11. No creativity was used, just a room full of teenage boys and a pack of Monster Energy drinks, writing this.’

@SpursUnfiltered raged: ‘Is Tom Segura supposed to be a comedian? Bad Thoughts is awful.’

On the flip side, many others hailed 46-year-old Tom’s Bad Thoughts as ‘hilarious’ and brilliantly ‘unhinged’.

@Fanb0yNate raved: ‘Tom [is] unhinged in Bad Thoughts can’t say I’m surprised tho, this is why he’s one of my favourite comedians.’

@GKline17 enthused: ‘Hey Netflix I have 2 things for you… 1: I don’t know how #badthoughts was ever greenlit, because it’s pretty insane, but well done seeing the genius inside the madness. 2: I hope someone lost their job for only allowing Tom to do 6 short episodes. > 2hrs is criminal.’

In agreement, @ScottTheDude said: ‘So I just watched all of #badthoughts… 1) Tom Segura is a deeply disturbed individual 2) I am pretty sure it’s made me a worse person 3) That was hilarious and I need more of it please.’

And it’s already shaping up to be just as provocative this time round.

One X user, Vaughan, called it a ‘complete disaster’ while Viper-62 declared it deserved ‘every award out there’.

In fact, when the first season came out, one unlikely person who tore Bad Thoughts apart was Tom’s mum.

He told Variety: ‘We had her watch a few episodes in a private screening room with hidden cameras.

‘She told me, “Give the money back. You can’t air this. I’ll never see my friends again.”‘

Tom also revealed that Jason Momoa was initially cast to play a ‘sexy dream guy’, but he later turned it down while he was in the bath.

‘He said yes — then he FaceTimed me from a bathtub to cancel,’ Tom recalled. ‘I was like, “Couldn’t you at least towel off first?”‘

The comedian added that Bryan Cranston almost appeared in Bad Thoughts, as he ‘liked the script’ but it ultimately ‘didn’t work out’.

Bad Thoughts is available to stream on Netflix.

A version of this article was first published on May 15, 2025.

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