Light spoilers below for the first two episodes of The Chair Company, so be warned if you haven’t yet watched on HBO or via HBO Max subscription.
Only one show on the 2025 TV schedule is equipped to send a chill up audiences’ spines at the same time as making them want to run out of the room with highly amused discomfort. No, it’s not Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, which is a really strange guess, but rather HBO’s The Chair Company, whose not-so-secret weapon is cringe-comedy architect Tim Robinson. He and co-creator Zach Kanin have really pulled off something incredibly weird and unique that won over critics, and it looks like audiences were eager to try out something different.
