About “The Chair Company” in a few words:

Here’s what the show’s about: In the new 2025 series The Chair Company, our hero, William Ronald “Ron” Trosper, is riding high after a promotion… until his chair literally collapses mid-presentation and everything falls apart. What starts as office humiliation morphs into a full-on investigation, spiraling into conspiracies, strange phone calls, and big questions about who’s really running the show. It’s equal parts cringe-comedy and surreal thriller, and you’re gonna want to watch with one eye open.

Meet the characters from The Chair Company

William Ronald Trosper

Okay, William is the kind of old-school company boss who still signs invoices with a fountain pen and insists on shaking hands — like, all the time — but he secretly loves sticky notes and color-coded spreadsheets more than people would expect. He runs The Chair Company with a steady, no-nonsense stare, yet he’ll laugh at a terrible joke and then get fiercely nostalgic about an old wooden prototype he refuses to throw away. He’s meticulous about measurements (to the millimeter) but also keeps a drawer of random childhood trinkets because “you never know.” He smells faintly of sawdust and pipe tobacco sometimes? Or was that the workshop — whatever, he’s dad energy incarnate, equal parts stubborn tradition and surprising softness.

Barb Trosper

Barb is the kind of matriarch who could run payroll with one hand and frost cupcakes with the other, and she absolutely would if needed — honestly, don’t underestimate her. Warm, blunt, and endlessly practical, she remembers everyone’s birthdays and exact seating preferences at the factory lunch table, and also has a tiny library of injury-first-aid hacks she’ll recite whether you asked or not. She wears floral aprons and safety goggles, collects novelty teacups (no, she won’t sell them) and despises waste but hoards ribbon scraps “for a future craft.” She’ll scold you for leaving a chair leg unglued and then secretly frame a doodle you made in a meeting; it’s confusing but iconic.

Natalie Trosper

Natalie is all spark and angles — the design brain of the family, always sketching silhouettes on napkins and muttering about ergonomics like it’s poetry, and yes she has an absurd number of colored pencils. She’s ambitious, sometimes a little sharp around the edges, and will argue passionately about curve radii at midnight, but also cries easily at old sitcom reruns and will defend a dog in the street like it’s a personal mission. She hates rules (mostly) but plans her revenge in meticulous spreadsheets, loves skinny black coffee even though she claims it “ruins her digestion,” and wears mismatched socks on purpose or by accident, who can tell. She’s the future-facing one — messy, brilliant, and impossible not to watch.

Seth Trosper

Seth is quieter, the hands-on fixer who knows every screw and joint by feel, the sort of guy who can rebuild a vintage rocker while making perfect toast, and he’s weirdly proud of both skills. He’s introverted but mischievous — will lurk in the workshop listening to old rock records (or is it a podcast? — both, don’t ask), then pop up with a pun that makes you groan and clap at once. He’s deeply loyal, allergic to gossip, and owns ten flannels and three identical mugs, none of which match, but he’ll defend your chair posture like it’s his personal honor. Understated, reliable, and somehow more sentimental than he lets on (he keeps a tiny scrap of the first prototype tucked in his wallet — don’t tell).