Comedian and Metro Detroit native Tim Robinson's character may or may not get to the bottom of the central mystery of "The Chair Company" before the show's eight-episode first season wraps on Nov. 30, but the show will be back at HBO for a second season, the network announced Thursday.

The hit show — it's been averaging 3.3 million viewers per episode, according to Variety — follows Robinson's Ron Trosper, a project manager at a company that plans and builds shopping malls, who falls into a series of rabbit holes while investigating a faulty office chair that gave way on him during a company presentation, causing him humiliation.

The mystery he unravels has gotten stranger with each subsequent episode, and "The Chair Company" builds on Robinson's brand of cringe-inducing humor, which h

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