My review of this week's The Chair Company, "New blood. There's 5 Rons now." — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I get married at a haunted barn...
Alan Sepinwall
Early in our second episode, Ron's daughter Natalie asks him for help talking to her fiancée Tara's parents about the young couple's desire to pick a less conventional wedding venue. "You're good at talking to people," Natalie tells him. This is not a sentiment often suggested to a Tim Robinson character. Even on Detroiters, Sam tended to be more of a people person than Tim, and Robinson primarily played socially awkward figures on I Think You Should Leave. Yet Natalie clearly means what she says, and as we saw throughout most of the series premiere — and as we see here when he has the conversation with Natalie's future father-in-law — Ron is good at talking to people, at least most of the time.