The chair company is just as weird and wonderful as you would expect from a Tim Robinson show and it seems viewers agree.
The series, which premiered Sunday night, became HBO’s most-watched debut comedy series in more than five years, since the launch of Avenue 5, the series created by Armando Iannucci and launched in 2020.
The chair company averaged 1.4 million cross-platform viewers in the United States in its first three days.
It is also one of the first three comedy series 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 sales presentation, so Trosper, who works for the architectural firm Fisher Robay, which makes shopping malls, takes it upon himself to track down the company that made 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.
Elsewhere, in terms of HBO viewership, Stainwith Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey, continues to grow. The series, set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, has seen each episode grow in its first six days, with the most recent episode grossing more than $4 million in its first three days.
This is a 32% increase from its first episode, which has now surpassed 10 million viewers.
It’s tied with Brad Ingelsby’s latest HBO show Easttown mare with Stain averaging 6.7 million viewers per episode and the Kate Winslet-led drama averaging 6.8 million at the same time it aired.
Ruffalo plays an FBI agent, who leads a task force charged with stopping a series of violent robberies carried out by an unsuspecting family man, played by Pelphrey.
