Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t but watched the disjointed magnificence that’s The Chair Firm’s Season 1 finale on HBO or through HBO Max subscription.
As The Chair Firm left viewers hanging with a freeze-frame of Ron’s involved face beneath the angered howls of a questionably vengeful boyfriend, my instant response was to performatively blurt out “Ha! Ha!” as if my syllables amounted to a honest sluggish clap. Your entire episode brilliantly gifted audiences with solutions for the season-long mysteries plaguing Tim Robinson’s Ron Trosper, however solely in ways in which made earlier questions (in addition to some earlier predictions) really feel fully irrelevant. All I can say is, thank gawd HBO already renewed it for Season 2.
Wait, that’s not all I can say in any respect. I’ve lots to say about the whole lot on this baffling episode from starting to finish, actually. I received’t try this, as a result of all of us have that one Tecca thriller in our personal lives that we have to get again to. However I do have some particular questions on the whole lot that we’re left with whereas ready for Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin to present us with new episodes, hopefully earlier than the 2026 TV schedule closes out.
Did Amanda Truly Use Low-Degree Psychic Powers To Trigger Ron’s Chair Fall?
Simply so we’re all conscious: I felt like a lunatic writing the query above. How did this present so casually stretch its reality-transcending storytelling to the purpose the place Jedi thoughts tips have entered the equation?
However since that choice is 100% on the desk now, are we actually meant to consider this baby-faced stranger who has been antagonizing Ron all season lengthy, going as far as to take a seat exterior of his home in a threatening method? Is it doable that Amanda has some form of telekinetic powers that he is witnessed for actual? And that she used them for lukewarm revenge by deliberately collapsing his chair throughout that presentation within the premiere? I knew Ron and Amanda’s weirdness needed to be related to the endgame, however psychological powers weren’t a top-of-mind rationalization.
Even when all that’s certainly legit, I believe he is nonetheless overstepping any and all regular boundaries by bringing Amanda’s panties to their highschool and having Ron choose them up off the bottom for recognition functions. It isn’t even fully clear what this boyfriend’s true motvies are right here, since Amanda has been extra flirtatious than upset about something. So is it simply the boyfriend projecting his personal jealous rage onto Ron? If that’s the case, what a bizarre fucking option to finish a season of TV.
Who’s The Child With The Father Who Was Ruined By Stacy Crystals (And Presumably Pink Ball)?
What is that this, a Vince Gilligan present? The Chair Firm‘s finale kicked off with a chilly open that gave the impression to be fully devoid of connections to Ron’s life till he landed on that gold mine of information in Jeff’s secret wall drawer. Stacy Crystals and Ron’s boss Jeff are apparently the 2 head honchos on the elusive conglomerate Pink Ball Market International, with photographic proof connecting the 2 to Robay Fisher’s Alice (Zuleyma Guevara) and the actor Danny Donovan (Bradley Stryker) that Jeff was impressed by on his rich-people retreat.
For all of the weirdness that Ron has stumbled upon, he hasn’t seemingly come throughout any info that would destroy an individual, and it isn’t even clear how any of the businesses that Ron has investigated may have a real-world impact on something past making somebody go insane with conspiratorial confusion. Might that child’s dad have gone by way of the same curler coaster of discoveries as Ron, just for that state of affairs to go far worse? Or was the daddy one of many many underlings inside the firm who’re threatened to not expose any data?
Understanding this present, it may very effectively don’t have anything to do with Pink Ball, and may very well be tied to a years-old incident that predated something we learn about. Jeff understanding that Stacy was shot was the actual takeaway right here, proper? However then additionally, how will that have an effect on something?
Are Any Of The Mysteries In Ron’s Life Truly Linked?
I do know I am not the one one who has adopted together with this season beneath the blanketed assumption that Ron’s varied foibles all fell beneath the umbrella of “Tecca-related weirdness.” However the inventive workforce additionally hasn’t shied away from hinting again and again that every one the disturbing shit in Ron’s life is coming at him from totally different instructions. Even in an episode the place he makes a very nutty connection between Jeff’s authentic music and the Pink Ball on-hold music.
However as Amanda’s assumed boyfriend appeared to show, for lack of a greater phrase, although he was the one who confirmed up exterior Ron’s home with the Jason masks, they have not been concerned with any of the opposite Tecca-specific particulars.
Plus, Ron’s try to attach Jeff and Stacy’s RBMG paperwork to Barb’s investor Alice got here up empty, presenting the offchance that these two aren’t related on a significant stage past the general conspiracy.
I do not mechanically assume that any of the above can be answerable for whoever was answerable for sending Ron’s info to numerous face modeling firms, or no matter occurred that sparked all these telephone calls he obtained about it. Was that even actual, or simply somebody messing with him?
It additionally would not at present appear as if Ron’s impulsive dive into the Mayor’s scandals will show fruitful to something that entails him, though that is now extra Mike’s concern.
With all that in thoughts, is it inside motive to say that nothing in Ron’s life is definitely related to anything? I imply, who even noticed that stop-motion animation stuff coming?
Extra Questions I am going to Seemingly Be Obsessing Over Till Season 2
- How will Mike get away with kidnapping that dude who actually needed to make use of Mayor Braccon’s sizzling tub?
- Has Mike ruined different individuals’s lives the way in which he went too far with Lynette and her household?
- What occurred to Ron’s previous canine, and did Child/Minnie Mouse’s proprietor have something to do with it?
- How is Ron’s mall improvement associated to RBMG’s scheme?
- What are Danny Donovan’s motion pictures like?
- Can I watch one?
- Why not?
- Will Ron recover from the truth that Barb insulted his investigation?
This could be a good time for HBO to rent somebody to write down the novelization for The Chair Firm Season 1 the place extra particulars are included within the textual content that weren’t aware about audiences throughout the TV airings. Additionally, these particulars ought to reply the above questions, and never simply be about different rejected concepts for Wendy’s offshoots past the ham-centric Carvers choice.
