The Chair Company, the new comedy series from Tim Robinson (Friendship, I Think You Should Leave), is surprisingly shaking out to be one of the year’s best thriller shows.

Robinson stars in the series as Ron Trosper, a husband, father, and recently promoted project manager who suffers a very embarrassing but minor workplace accident.

Those present laughed about the incident involving a chair before moving on with their lives. Ron can’t let it go, however, and becomes fixated with finding out how something like this could happen to him.

While initially it seems like just an unhealthy obsession, the more the project manager investigates the cause of the accident, the more irregularities he discovers.
As this personal detective work deepens, it isn’t long before Ron starts receiving mysterious cryptic threats.

Like in Friendship and I Think You Should Leave, Robinson rarely delivers a line conventionally, often shouting them, whispering them or delivering them with a hysterically bewildered expression.

Also akin to his previous projects, The Chair Company is heavy on a type of surreal, cringe comedy that will provoke an equal dose of both laughter and anxiety.

Yet, if you are on the wavelength of Robinson’s latest project, you are rewarded with an extremely timely show about digital paranoia and society’s obsession with conspiracy theories.

Plus, while you may start watching The Chair Company for its absurd humour, as the series continues, you do become gripped by its unconventional mystery-thriller plot and the increasingly bizarre ways it unfolds.

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Boluwatife Adesina is a media writer and the helmer of the Downtown Review page. He’s probably in a cinema near you.