Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts returned on May 24 with a brand new season, bringing back the comedian’s dark comedy series just over a year after it first premiered. The new run gives Netflix another dose of the twisted sketch show Segura created, wrote and directed, built around unthinkable scenarios, cinematic fantasies and a rotating cast of characters that keep drifting into stranger territory.
The comeback matters because Bad Thoughts did not arrive as a safe bet. Its first season drew a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it also built a devoted following from viewers who leaned hard into its discomfort. One called it “pure gold.” Another said some of the sketches were “the funniest things I’ve ever seen on TV.” A third described it as “super dark, super weird, and hilarious in the most uncomfortable ways.”
That split reaction has followed Segura from the start. Netflix had already released several of his stand-up titles before Bad Thoughts came along, including Ball Hog in 2020, Sledgehammer in 2023 and Teacher in 2025. By the time the series premiered last year, he was already a familiar name on the platform. The show widened his lane from stand-up into a more cinematic, serialized brand of comedy, one built less on setup and punchline than on escalation, unease and surprise.
Netflix markets the series as a dark comedy, and that label fits the way it has been described by critics and fans alike. One Los Angeles Times writer compared it to “a fever dream” and said it was so unhinged the brain might file a restraining order. Another critic called it “Netflix’s most twisted dark comedy series of all time” and said the second season would be “a perfect one-night weekend binge” for comedy fans. The same review said the show goes to the absolute limit of what most people can stomach.
That praise sits alongside the warning label built into the show itself. Bad Thoughts does not ask viewers to relax into the jokes. It pushes into imagery and ideas that are supposed to unsettle as much as amuse, and that is exactly why it has developed an audience. The series follows Segura through scenarios and fantasies that turn increasingly bizarre, with storylines that are amusing and unsettling at the same time. For some viewers, that combination is the point; for others, it is the reason they will not make it past the first few minutes.
The question now is whether the new season turns that uneasy formula into something bigger, or simply doubles down on the same shock-and-laughter rhythm that made the first run divisive and sticky. The early response suggests the answer may already be in: Bad Thoughts is not trying to soften its edges. It is leaning into them, and for the people who liked the first season, that is exactly the appeal.
