Tom Segura’s rude, Rohe Netflix comedy series

In the first minutes of Netflix’s Bad thoughtsCreator and Star Tom Segura explains how it is to be a comedian. “You know that you have this stupid shit that you have sent to HR to say?” He grins. “I’ll be paid for it.”

He explains the broad topic of the episode – “Jobs” – but really that he could explain his series as a whole. And his promise (or his threat) is no more idle. Bad thoughts‘The entire Rasis -D’ -être urges the limits of good taste, hoping to provoke delighted horror or disgust. How successfully you think that Segura is there and whether you believe that it is a worthy goal is a question of personal sensitivity. I will say the following: You cannot accuse the man not to have committed yourself a bit.

Segura compared in interviews Bad thoughts To Twilight zone or a “dark, comedic version of Black mirror. ““ It would probably be easier as a sketch show à la I think you should go with Tim RobinsonAlthough you understand why a comedian does not want to create the projects of other comedians so directly. Each of its six rates is divided into two or three segments, the last of which is usually the first half of a two-parter-two division. The whole thing comes in 114 minutes, including credits or less than a weekly drop of Disney+’s Andor.

It helps to fly the time, despite Segura’s description of the show as “dark”, it is not really. Inappropriate, rough, occasionally violent and often sexually explicit, yes. (None of them necessarily cause a complaint if this is your cup of tea.) But dark? I assume it depends on your definition.

You will see how a man (Segura) shit his pants. You will see another man (The sopranos‘Robert Iler) Shit into a toilet while sitting on the lap of another man (Kirk Fox). You will see how a guy of a seniors and one with a repulsive monster sex with one sex and another who overlooks an ax to chop off his own penis. (However, all men in this sentence are played by Segura Bad thoughts Put on a few fun guest stars like Dan Stevens, Shea Whigham and Rachel Bloom.) You won’t see much of what actually feels twisted to shock or blue, or at least not.

The form that accept these stories varies from segment to segment: post-apocalyptic horror, sexy foreign film and bonus feature for a direct atrocity steven Seagal. The sendups are not always as precise as they could be – would “A25” the studio behind A Patch Adams-Style cheesfest over a caretaker who touches people literally and metaphorically? But Segura and his co-directors, Rami Hachache and Jeremy Konnen, nail the details that are really important. The James Bond Thrill Sendup that opens the series is pretty good. The exact sound of the flop When the spy lets his dirty pants fall on the floor.

While the genres and styles are widespread, the continued most recurring topics are obvious and Bro-Y. (As you might expect from a comic, for which, among other things, a recurring guest is The Joe Rogan experience.) One is a fixation of what people say or may have to say. Bad thoughts Thankfully, avoid the most crowding of anti-deculture attitude, but it cannot resist, look for ways to have your cake and eat it. Sure, a racist history of war could be unacceptable for public consumption. But what if it comes from a little boy? What if the boy recites it as a homage to his beloved grandfather (Segura) in a school meeting? What if Segura also throws herself as the horrified father of the boy? Is it okay to laugh now?

The other, even more important topic is sexual humiliation. If Bad thoughts If a window in Segura’s twisted ideas is supposed to give, he cannot stop dreaming of dreaming scenarios in which a man is forced to submit sexual situations that he really would not be there – whether it is because the lady he really promises that he promises another bone. insulted by the language in his standup specials. (There is this topic again.)

When the punch lines go: “Are you insulted?” And “EW, coarse sex” does not beat me as particularly new or outrageous. But Bad thoughts Makes milk additional humor if you doublet some of them. The three-chapter “Cyrus” is not because the jokes are necessarily more inspired every time the series returns, but because Segura always develops Ever Brazier turns to connect them all. Another disease sketch takes the stereotypical male dream of having a really big cock, and then escalates to surreal dimensions. The thrill can be seen how far it will take the gag and then, if he can no longer carry it out, how he will work out of it again.

My undoubtedly favorite is one that leads Segura’s mischievous humor in a different direction. “Rex Henley” is a two-parter-down home country singer who becomes so rich and famous that he grows completely in contact with his fan base, and then too absurd violent lengths to get his mojo back. I don’t know Segura, so I don’t know if this is a real fear of his. But it certainly feels like one, that could Talk to the private fears of a man who is successful enough to have five Netflix specials, his own podcasting empire and now his own Netflix comedy series.

Unlike z. B. an extended imagination about the punishment of a barista for a very simple beverage regulations, which is nothing to be plausibly assigned to the concept. Segura doesn’t do any other way either. He throws himself out as the unpredictable villain while Daniella Pineda plays the last girl. But if the concept is too funny to be so universal as the tribes of the potty humor, dirty words and sexual killings that go through most of the rest of the series, it also makes it as fascinating. It is one of the few moments in Bad thoughts It feels like they are playing in the personal bad thoughts of a person and more of a generally familiar ID.