| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Hip in tone but traditional in spirit, it's not at all hard to feel welcome at the Captain. |
| 80 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The first-rate actors, led by likable Kranz, don't strain in their offbeat roles. Tambor adds another first-rate portrait to his gallery of goofballs. The usually reserved Klein is livelier than ever. |
| 80 |
Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
If Welcome to the Captain can sustain its tone of tender quirkiness, it may find an appreciate audience stretching from those who loved "Arrested Development" to fans of "My Name Is Earl." |
| 70 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Nothing in Welcome to the Captain is particularly fresh, but there's nevertheless a genial charm to this CBS comedy, whose main drawback is that it focuses on the wrong characters. |
| 60 |
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
The Captain has a great facade, but it’s filled with people who will make you keep checking the real estate listings. |
| 60 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
That's about where this show sits, on the rails, but with a little journey ahead to get from captain to rear admiral. |
| 60 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
After watching two episodes, I was left with the thought with which I began: An iconic apartment building full of wacky characters would make a great TV show. Would, though. Not does. |
| 60 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Welcome to the Captain attempts a similarly shaggy, loose sitcom vibe, but isn't quite successful, though it's at least watchable. |
| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly Alynda Wheat
Sadly, Welcome to the Captain just isn't funny or inspired enough to nail the peek-behind-the-Hollywood-curtain genre. |
| 50 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
The characters are likeable enough so that you might even grow to care about them--and the show--in this arid writers' strike environment. |
| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
The trouble with Welcome to the Captain, outside of the title and romantic emphasis, is that two episodes haven't revealed any clear direction. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
Kranz does look like a writer, for what it's worth. But if he's really as good as they say, he'd have written something better than this. |
| 50 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
The characters are refreshingly non-hostile and converse in something other than brittle, cold sitcom-speak. But the serialized nature of the stories (subsequent episodes begin with the "previously on" feature usually seen on dramas) is no particular plus. And while the characters are sweet, they stop short of being lovable. |
| 40 |
Newsday Diane Werts
There's nothing to relate to here, just to observe from afar, and only Tambor's as-always deft comic distraction gives us anything worth glancing at. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The Captain [is] a historic hotel now populated by every Hollywood stereotype ever dusted off for a sitcom pilot. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Let's hope Welcome, as forced as "Christine" is relaxed, runs itself into cancellation sooner rather than later. |
| 30 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Welcome to the Captain, a tepid comedy about would-be wackos in a Hollywood apartment building, is such a dud that it's likely to only make some of us miss the funnier "Big Bang Theory" (which it temporarily replaces) even more. |
| 25 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
The show seems to vanish as it's happening, leaving behind nothing except a vague feeling of being mildly annoyed. It doesn't just fail to leave you laughing. It leaves you, period. |
| 20 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Another single-camera comedy that fails to provide any laughs. |
| 20 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Welcome to The Captain is less a TV show than a grim ransom note from the striking Hollywood writers. |
