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Bad Thoughts, Worse Conversations With Your Partner

If you’ve ever been blue-balled by a trailer, you know exactly how I felt watching Tom Segura’s Netflix mini-series, Bad Thoughts. From the trailer, I expected something absurdist and edgy, maybe chaotic comedy flirting with surrealism. Instead, I got six episodes of what felt like hot garbage. Garbage that smelled worse the longer I sat with it. Each episode frustrated me more. I kept watching out of some twisted sense of duty until I gave up, mostly because I ran out of bleach to cleanse my ey

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Bad Thoughts, Worse Conversations With Your Partner

Everything Tom Segura Does in Bad Thoughts Tim Robinson Does Better

I don't hate Tom Segura. I've seen some of his standup routines, and he can make me laugh. But there's something lost in translation between the standup and his new sketch comedy show Bad Thoughts. Take, for example, the Steven Seagal bit. The joke is a lot more than the impersonation—it's Segura commenting on how ridiculous Seagal is. Because it's ridiculous that Seagal was a cop in real life. It's ridiculous that he's always bullshiting people with his martial arts crap. It's ridiculous that h