TV REVIEW

The Chair Company ★★★½

Could a show with as many funny moments as this new eight-part limited series be considered anything but a success? A comic mix of the conspiratorial and the crazed from Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, the partnership behind Netflix’s brain-bending sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson , The Chair Company works even when it falls short of its brief. It’s an odd, sometimes unbalanced, production. Which makes sense when you consider that it’s about odd, sometimes unbalanced, people.

Wound tight even at a celebratory dinner with his family, Ron Trosper (Robinson) is a project manager at an Ohio mall developer. Ron is a nerdy salaryman – with his glasses and khakis, Robinson looks like the offspring of Bill Gates – committed to hi

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