DETROIT — Comedian and Metro Detroit native Tim Robinson's character may or may not get to the bottom of the central mystery of "The Chair Company" before the show's eight-episode first season wraps on Nov. 30, but the show will be back at HBO for a second season, the network announced Thursday.

The hit show — it's been averaging 3.3 million viewers per episode, according to Variety — follows Robinson's Ron Trosper, a project manager at a company that plans and builds shopping malls, who falls into a series of rabbit holes while investigating a faulty office chair that gave way on him during a company presentation, causing him humiliation.

The mystery he unravels has gotten stranger with each subsequent episode, and "The Chair Company" builds on Robinson's brand of cringe-inducing humor, which he has honed on shows like "Detroiters" and his Netflix sketch comedy series "I Think You Should Leave," as well as this year's feature film "Friendship."

During its renewal announcement, HBO called "The Chair Company" the network's "top freshman comedy in platform history."

"I Love LA," starring Rachel Sennott, was also renewed for a second season on Thursday.

"We're thrilled by the incredible response to 'The Chair Company' and 'I Love LA,'" HBO's Amy Gravitt said in a statement. "Both shows confidently carry on the HBO comedy tradition, in their own singular way."

"The Chair Company," which also stars Lake Bell and Lou Diamond Phillips, premiered in October.

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