The Chair Company is just as weird and wonderful as you’d expect a show from Tim Robinson to be and it seems viewers agree.
The series, which premiered on Sunday night, has become HBO’s most-watched comedy series debut in over five years, since the launch of Avenue 5, the Armando Iannucci-created series that launched in 2020.
The Chair Company averaged 1.4M cross-platform viewers in the U.S. across its first three days.
It is also among the top three comedy series premieres in HBO Max history alongside And Just Like That and Our Flag Means Death.
The 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.
The 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.
The Chair Company is executive produced by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, Adam McKay and Todd Schulman for HyperObject Industries, Andrew DeYoung, and Igor Srubshchik. DeYoung and Aaron Schimberg serve as directors on the series.
Elsewhere, in terms of HBO ratings, Task, 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.
This is a 32% rise from its premiere episode, which has now surpassed 10M viewers.
It is on par with Brad Ingelsby’s 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.
Ruffalo 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.
