The Chair Company (Season 1)

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⭐7.5/10

Tim Robinson has that unique quality where everything he says is funny to me. Just look at that face - in fact he's already funny before he says anything. I am a huge fan and will always check out his stuff. 

Many of my thoughts are similar to Tim's. I love ITYSL, but also only laugh at around half the skits, and am stoneface silent at the other half. But the funny half really hits! I cry-laugh at half the jokes. I'm not sure there are higher highs in comedy for me. 

 I thought this show was actually kinda the opposite where it is consistently funny, but only moderately. It is safer throughout, and so while there are fewer bits where I'm just waiting for it to end, I'm also less likely to be curled up and unable to breathe. 

This show is about Tim Robinson discovering a vast conspiracy about a chair company, but it really plays out as a parody of some espionage thriller. I thought that especially the early episodes were the best where it seems like he is making a lot out of nothing, and throughout the show and up to the end, you always sorta have that in the back of your mind. I kinda even think that kind of premise would have been better, but as a movie. 

Anyways, this show lost a little steam for me here and there, but was still consistently fun to come back to. It's absurd, it's shocking, it's everything you would expect from Tim Robinson, but maybe toned down a bit. I thought the super weird ending was pretty appropriate, embracing the absurdism and gearing you up for season 2. I also find this show hard to recommend, especially to the random TV watcher, but I still liked it a lot and I'm happy it's getting a second season. 

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