TV Show: Bad Thoughts
Season: Season 1
Type: tvepisode
Overview: A singer finds inspiration for a killer comeback. A school play that no parent could prepare for. An unforgettable night with extremely close sisters.
Episode Number: 3
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Rex Henley summons Shelly to his house and uses her as artistic inspiration for his music. Shelly spends much of the episode on the run while wearing official Rex merchandise. Eventually, she convinces Rex to kill one of the theatre actors instead of her, leading to Rex's unprecedented success with his new Korean country album and a dark turn where he kills thousands more fans without consequence.
Tom Segura attends a school play with his real-life wife Christina P, which quickly devolves into a chaotic recreation of the Vietnam War directed by Segura's father. The scene serves as a low-key palate cleanser following the intense Rex Henley storyline.
The final part of the episode is styled like a kitsch black-and-white French art film. Tom Segura plays Joseph, a man who moves to France to be with a woman who stands him up. After meeting a cool older guy, Joseph is lured into the apartment of a beautiful woman who demands he sleep with her twin sister first. The twin sister is revealed to be a grotesque visage protruding from the woman's back, ending on a cliffhanger.
Rex Henley's new Korean country album marks his artistic comeback and unprecedented success. However, this success is accompanied by a dark twist where Rex kills thousands more fans and is never held accountable for his actions.
The episode explores family dysfunction in various ways: an elderly man writes a controversial skit for his grandson's school play causing embarrassment and conflict; Tom Segura's father directs a chaotic Vietnam War-themed school play; and the bizarre relationship dynamics in the French art film-style sketch highlight personal and relational dysfunctions.