"Like most of their work, it sometimes stretches believability to try and get a laugh, but it's a captivatingly strange piece of work, a show that feels like it reaches for commentary in a way that these guys haven't really done before, becoming a study of how paranoia, conspiracies, and feelings of inadequacy can blend into something dangerous in the male psyche."
"The hilariously long tagline for "The Chair Company" kinda says it all while also saying nothing, which is fitting for the show: "There's a world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every week to find out when he can and when he can't.""
"Ron Trosper (Robinson) works at a company where he's leading a team planning the construction of a local mall in suburban Ohio. What should be a successful time in Ron's life is thrown into utter chaos at an office meeting to celebrate the project when, well, something happens that HBO has asked not to be spoiled, which kind of makes the what of this show difficult to unpack."
Ron Trosper leads a team planning a suburban Ohio mall and experiences an embarrassing, unexplained incident at a celebratory office meeting that derails his life. The incident becomes an obsession that sends Ron into a rabbit hole seeking reasons and explanations. The narrative blends odd, stretched-believability humor with darker elements as paranoia, conspiracies, and feelings of inadequacy fuse in the male psyche. The series shifts between mystery and a study of a man spiraling toward insanity while using an absurd tagline about dual worlds to frame Ron's attempts to keep realities separate.
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