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Ben Sherlock is a Tomatometer-approved film and TV critic who runs the massively underrated YouTube channel I Got Touched at the Cinema. Before working at Screen Rant, Ben wrote for Game Rant, Taste of Cinema, Comic Book Resources, and BabbleTop. He's also an indie filmmaker, a standup comedian, and an alumnus of the School of Rock.
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Now that The Chair Company season 1 is over, it’s the perfect time to catch up. There are so many great TV shows on right now — Pluribus, The Lowdown, It: Welcome to Derry — that it can be tough to keep up with them all on a week-to-week basis. Naturally, some terrific television is bound to fall by the wayside as the episodes pile up.
But that can be a blessing in disguise. Once those episodes have piled up, you’re free to binge-watch them at your leisure. Netflix pioneered the binge-watching model about a decade ago when it started releasing full seasons of House of Cards and Stranger Things all at once. Those interminable week-long waits between cliffhanger endings and their payoffs became a thing of the past.
In recent years, that weekly release schedule has made a comeback. Even Netflix itself is doling out seasons of its most popular shows a few episodes at a time. But binge-watching is still a great way to watch television; it’s like watching a really long, really in-depth movie, and it allows you to fully immerse yourself in the story and the world of the show.
If you’ve heard how great The Chair Company is — maybe you’ve seen that it has a perfect 100% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes — but haven’t gotten around to checking it out yet, now is the perfect time to catch up. The season finale just dropped, so every episode is available to be binge-watched.
The Chair Company Season 1 Just Ended
Ron sitting in his car in The Chair Company
Eight weeks ago, when The Chair Company premiered, we were introduced to Ron Trosper, played by Tim Robinson. Having just been promoted to project manager at his property development firm, Fisher Robay, Ron gets up to give a speech to his new team. It goes over great, and then he sits back down and his chair breaks under him, humiliating him in front of his staff.
Over the next few episodes, Ron became increasingly obsessed with this public embarrassment. He was convinced that there was something shady going on with Tecca, the company that manufactured the chair, and he was determined to get to the bottom of it. He ended up uncovering a far-reaching corporate conspiracy involving political corruption and fraud.
After a whirlwind eight-episode run, The Chair Company season 1 has just ended. The season finale, “Minnie Mouse coming back wasn’t on my bingo card,” was the long-awaited culmination of the show’s narrative arc. It came back around to that broken chair and finally started to explain the mysteries of its manufacturer — in the zaniest, weirdest way possible.
The Chair Company Was Released Weekly, But It's Perfect For Binging
Sophia Lillis looking at her phone in The Chair Company
It was fun watching The Chair Company week to week, seeing the mystery unfold and discussing each twist and turn around the proverbial water cooler. Robinson and his co-creator Zach Kanin filled the series with absurdist red herrings, so it was a joy to follow the clues and see which ones spiraled into major revelations and which ones were just surreal non-sequiturs.
But it’s such a compelling story, and there are so many subtle little callbacks to previous episodes, that it’ll probably work even better as a binge-watch. I’m sure there were plenty of callbacks that went over my head because they were referencing something I saw four or five weeks earlier, and I’d forgotten about them.
After every cliffhanger, it was frustrating to have to wait a whole week to see where it would go. I’ve spent the last two months on tenterhooks, constantly awaiting my next fix of The Chair Company. Now that the season is over, that’s not an issue anymore — you can binge-watch the whole thing from start to finish over the course of a single rainy afternoon.
The Chair Company Is One Of The Best New Shows Of The Year
Ron looking excited in The Chair Company
There’s been plenty of great new TV this year, from The Studio to Long Story Short, and The Chair Company ranks as one of the very best new shows of 2025. In its own bizarre way, this little thriller perfectly captured the zeitgeist. We all feel like Ron right now; we know there’s a lot of flagrant corruption going on above our heads, but we’re powerless to stop it.
It feels like those classic paranoid thrillers of the ‘70s, like All the President’s Men or The Parallax View, but with the offbeat humor of an I Think You Should Leave sketch. It’s a corporate conspiracy thriller like Dark Waters — except, instead of Mark Ruffalo, the fight for justice is being spearheaded by an angry, impotent Tim Robinson.
The Chair Company Has Already Been Renewed For Season 2
Tim Robinson standing in a white room holding a phone to his ear in The Chair Company
A couple of weeks before the season 1 finale aired, HBO renewed The Chair Company for a second season. And it’s a good thing, too, because the season 1 finale ended up asking more questions than it answered. It did bring the ongoing storylines to a head, but it also opened up a handful of new mysteries and left some loose ends.
I don’t mean that in a bad way; the mystery is still engaging in spite of the unanswered questions. The series only gets more disturbing and intriguing as it enters its endgame in the season finale. But The Chair Company will definitely need a second season, because the story is far from over.
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