HBO Max’s ‘The Chair Company’ is the funniest madness you’ll stream this year

WEB DESK: Move over haunted houses, the real horror now sits in an ergonomic office chair. HBO Max has dropped The Chair Company, a delirious horror-comedy from I Think You Should Leave star Tim Robinson and director Andrew DeYoung, and it’s already being hailed as the funniest panic attack ever televised. With Pakistanis now having proper access to HBO Max, fans can start fishing for funny bones in their bodies.

The premise? After a workplace meltdown involving (of course) a faulty office chair, William Ronald Trosper stumbles into a vast corporate conspiracy. It’s All the President’s Men if Woodward and Bernstein were replaced with your most paranoid co-worker who still uses Excel 2010.

Fans of Robinson’s brand of existential chaos, equal parts cringe, scream, and sob, will feel right at home. His talent for making social discomfort feel like a Lovecraftian curse shines here. One minute you’re laughing at a broken swivel chair, the next you’re questioning capitalism, mortality, and why HR still hasn’t returned your email.

Critics are already obsessed. Rotten Tomatoes calls it “a descent into paranoia that finds huge laughs in deeply uncomfortable places.” Which, honestly, could describe most office meetings.

With its blend of A24-level anxiety and Curb Your Enthusiasm awkwardness, The Chair Company turns corporate life into psychological warfare, and it’s hilarious. So, if you’ve ever screamed internally during a Zoom call, congratulations: this show was made for you.

Streaming now on HBO Max, just don’t sit down while watching. You never know what your chair’s plotting.