| 80 |
Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
The best new comedy of the season. |
| 80 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The show’s ensemble cast is rock-solid, and makes you instantly root for this goofball gang. |
| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
It bursts with humor thanks to a solid cast, smart writing and a quick pace. |
| 80 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
To embrace "Knights," you have to have a taste for the kind of comedy that teases because it loves. |
| 80 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
You will regret tuning in even a minute late for the premiere. |
| 80 |
Time James Poniewozik
The show is filled with Lettermanesque non sequiturs and '70s pop-culture arcana... but it has heart too. |
| 80 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
"The Knights of Prosperity" is knee-slappingly and side-splittingly funny stuff, or as close to that as TV gets these days. |
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It has a goofy charm and outsize ridiculousness that wins you over -- even if you'd prefer more snark. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
"The Knights of Prosperity" has delivered this season where so many new shows have failed: It introduces a serialized story line with characters and a plot that are different and likable enough to warrant a return visit. |
| 75 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
While every single actor is perfect and perfectly funny in his role, every time Richardson opens his mouth, I nearly spit my Weight Watchers fat-free snack food all over my desk. The guy is brilliant. |
| 75 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
As in many filmed comedies, at times Knights seems content to substitute movement and scenery for comedy, but the brighter moments compensate for those times when the show goes slack. |
| 75 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
Of the large, nicely peppered cast, I especially like Vergara, who has some of the vamping yumminess of a Catherine Zeta-Jones. [8 Jan 2007, p.35] |
| 70 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The best new network sitcom this season. |
| 70 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
You'll root for these inept amateurs, but sustaining this premise won't be easy. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The break-in may never take place, but the characters are appealing, and the writing is spirited enough to carry the sitcom at least for a while. |
| 70 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Its raffish ethnic and class humor takes no prisoners. |
| 60 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
"Knights" is without question the funniest comedy ABC has on its roster. But look at the network's other options, and you'll understand that's not what you'd call a hard-won honor. |
| 60 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
One of the better -- if stranger -- comedy debuts the networks have put out this year. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
It's a cute show, but the premise is so paper-thin you have to wonder how the writers will sustain "Knights" for a full season, let alone many years, if successful. |
| 60 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
There's plenty of that low-key humor that characterized Ed, and the show can be hilarious when the crew gets involved in Keystone Kops capers, but it drags in the middle ground. |
| 50 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
Unfortunately, there's an excess of kooky cuteness here. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Despite the presence of a capable cast of bumbling Robin Hood wanna-bes... "The Knights of Prosperity" quickly devolves into tepid, overwrought whimsy and struggles to sustain its premise. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
Their efforts to better their lives through grand larceny feel forced, not to mention doomed. |
| 50 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
It was [creators Burnett and Beckerman's] style on "Ed" to be too cutesy by half, and so here |
| 40 |
Variety Brian Lowry
[Knights] has its moments in a "Honeymooners" sort of way but, especially after viewing the second episode, feels destined to run out of gas long before its central sextet gets any satisfaction. |
| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
These characters operate with unrelenting silliness. Only the Marx Brothers, in their prime, could have pulled off this caper. |
| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
Yes, another comedy starts out with mild promise and quickly tanks. |
| 30 |
Newsday Verne Gay
A sweet, gentle, good-natured trifle that is (nonetheless) surprisingly airless and only rarely funny, if that. |
