The Chair Company is an HBO comedy series co-created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, the duo behind the cult sketch phenomenon I Think You Should Leave, marking Robinson's first leading role in a fully serialized narrative rather than a sketch showcase. Robinson stars as Ron Trosper, an ordinary corporate everyman whose life is upended by a mortifying public incident, after which he stumbles onto what appears to be a sprawling conspiracy hidden beneath the mundane surfaces of everyday commerce.
What begins as one man's attempt to recover a shred of dignity spirals into an obsessive, ever-deepening investigation, and the show channels Robinson's signature comedy of social humiliation and escalating absurdity into a single continuous story. His character's inability to let go — to simply move past his embarrassment — becomes the engine that drags him, and everyone around him, into increasingly deranged territory. Produced with Adam McKay among its executive producers, the series marries excruciating cringe comedy to the structure of a paranoid mystery.
Reviewers embraced The Chair Company as a natural, ambitious evolution of Robinson's comic voice, praising its commitment to sustaining his particular brand of discomfort across a full narrative arc. A word-of-mouth hit, it was renewed for a second season at HBO Max, where it streams.
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