How Can The Chair Company Keep Doing This?

"Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin's utterly singular conspiracy comedy-thriller had become the "top freshman comedy performer" in HBO Max's history, averaging around 3.3 million American viewers per episode. It's a strange triumph for a very strange show; after all, we're talking about a series in which Robinson plays office-drone weirdo Ron Trosper, whose obsession with a defective office chair and a minor public humiliation drags him into an odyssey"

"I love The Chair Company, but frankly, I expected it to be watched by, at most, 100,000 sickos. Its long-form serialized nature theoretically caps its ability to travel fast, far, and wide, especially when compared to the memetic energy of I Think You Should Leave sketches. Is it simply that Robinson has achieved an unusually potent fame? Or is it that Robinson, Kanin, and their collaborators have a gift for a particular stickiness?"

The Chair Company ends its eighth episode on a cliffhanger after HBO renewed the series ahead of the finale. Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin's conspiracy comedy-thriller averaged roughly 3.3 million American viewers per episode, making it HBO Max's top freshman comedy performer. The series centers on Ron Trosper, an office-drone whose fixation on a faulty chair and a minor humiliation leads him through decrepit buildings, a conglomerate called Red Ball Market Global, a disturbing figure named Mike Santini, and even Ohio local government. The show’s serialized form seemed unlikely to spread quickly, yet memorable phrases and characters generated unexpected cultural traction and raise questions about how the story might expand in a second season.

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