‘The Chair Company’ Review: Tim Robinson and the Mystery of the Bad Customer Service

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It’s hard to say whether HBO’s The Chair Company is an evolution of Tim Robinson’s particular brand of absurdist comedy, or just a perfect distillation of it. You can trace the roots of his new HBO series straight back to the first sketch from the first episode of I Think You Should Leave , his previous joint with co-creator Zach Kanin.

In that sketch, Robinson played a man wrapping up some sort of job interview at a coffee shop. After saying his goodbyes, he attempts to leave by pulling on the front door. It won’t budge, because it’s a push door, as his prospective boss points out. No, it isn’t, Robinson’s character argues. It goes both ways, he

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