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Total Film
Total Film
Entertainment
George Marston

Tim Robinson's darkly madcap comedy thriller The Chair Company is the perfect antidote to the most overused trope on TV

Tim Robinson as Ron Trosper, making a toast.

I have a confession to make. I'm getting a little burned out on so-called 'prestige television.' If I have to watch another 8 episode limited series about a dejected cop (or gangster) with a troubled past trying to wrestle control from chaos while wallowing in his own guilty conscience, I'm going to immediately fall asleep for 100 years.

Thankfully, while a century-long nap might actually help a little bit, there's a balm for the increasingly tired concept of the TV strongman - Tim Robinson's bizarrely tense and hilariously absurd HBO series The Chair Company.

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