Tim Robinson's ‘The Chair Company’ Takes a Corporate Normie Down a Paranoid Rabbit-Hole
Chair-based mystery aside, the ‘I Think You Should Leave’ creator's new series is really about how the banality and indignities of ordinary life can drive you insane.
In Tim Robinson's excellent Netflix sketch show I Think You Should Leave, many of the segments play out along similar lines: An otherwise normal scenario becomes intensely strange and awkward because someone does something slightly strange or awkward, and then refuses to back down and instead doubles down, causing everything to escalate exponentially.
Example: in the first sketch of the first episode of the show, Robinson's character tries to pull open a push door, and when the man who's just interviewed him for a new job informs him of his mistake, he insists “It's both” and forcibly, very slowly, pulls the door open, breaking it in the process.
Author's summary: Tim Robinson's new series explores the banality of life.