How many episodes are in The Chair Company?

The Chair Company has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does The Chair Company premiere?

The Chair Company premieres on 2025-10-12.

Is The Chair Company a new series?

The Chair Company is a new series (Season 1).

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The Chair Company(2025)

Also known as Компанија за столице • Компания боссов

Archived · HBO

16+8 eps

S01

ComedyDramaMysteryThriller

ON AIR: OCT 12Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

A workplace embarrassment kicks off a conspiracy investigation, and the show keeps both registers fully alive at once: the humiliation is genuinely mortifying, and the paranoia that follows is genuinely unsettling. That tonal range, absurdist comedy sitting right next to real dread, is what the series is built on.

The mystery refuses to resolve into anything tidy or grounded. Each step of the investigation peels back another layer of bureaucratic strangeness, so the world itself starts to feel unreliable. Mundane office indignity and something far more sinister occupy the same scenes without either canceling the other out.

Best for

surreal workplace comedy, dark bureaucratic dread and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

HBO

Official Premise

Follows a man who investigates a conspiracy after an embarrassing incident at work.

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