{"id":309435,"date":"2025-10-17T00:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309435\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:57:11","slug":"tim-robinsons-the-chair-company-becomes-top-hbo-comedy-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309435\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Robinson\u2019s \u2018The Chair Company\u2019 Becomes Top HBO Comedy In 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Chair Company<\/a> is just as weird and wonderful as you\u2019d expect a show from Tim Robinson to be and it seems viewers agree.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series, which premiered on Sunday night, has become HBO<\/a>\u2019s most-watched comedy series debut in over five years, since the launch of Avenue 5, the Armando Iannucci-created series that launched in 2020. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chair Company averaged 1.4M cross-platform viewers in the U.S. across its first three days.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is also among the top three comedy series premieres in HBO Max history alongside And Just Like That and Our Flag Means Death.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chair Company stars Robinson as William Ronald Trosper, a man who finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy after an embarrassing incident at work. The embarrassing incident? His chair breaks during an important business presentation, so Trosper, who works for architectural firm Fisher Robay, which makes malls, takes it upon himself to track down the company that made it Tecca Chairs. This leads him down some strange rabbit holes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series also stars Lake Bell as his wife Barb, Sophia Lillis as his daughter Natalie and Will Price as his son Seth. Lou Diamond Phillips and Jim Downey also star.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, in terms of HBO ratings, Task<\/a>, starring Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey continues to grow. The series, set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, has seen each episode grow over its first six, with the most recent episode bringing in more than 4M in its first three days.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is a 32% rise from its premiere episode, which has now surpassed 10M viewers.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is on par with Brad Ingelsby\u2019s last HBO show Mare of Easttown with Task averaging 6.7M viewers per episode and the Kate Winslet-fronted drama averaging 6.8M at the same point in its run.<\/p>\n

\n\tRuffalo plays an FBI agent, who heads a Task Force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man, played by Pelphrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chair Company is just as weird and wonderful as you\u2019d expect a show from Tim Robinson to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,5560,104021,104022,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-309435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-task","11":"tag-the-chair-company","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115386793750482464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}