Welcome to The Captain

Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

Hip in tone but traditional in spirit, it's not at all hard to feel welcome at the Captain.

Orlando SentinelHal 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.

Wall Street JournalNancy 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."

VarietyBrian 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.

The New York TimesGinia Bellafante

The Captain has a great facade, but it’s filled with people who will make you keep checking the real estate listings.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

That's about where this show sits, on the rails, but with a little journey ahead to get from captain to rear admiral.

Los Angeles TimesMary 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.

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

Welcome to the Captain attempts a similarly shaggy, loose sitcom vibe, but isn't quite successful, though it's at least watchable.

Entertainment WeeklyAlynda Wheat

Sadly, Welcome to the Captain just isn't funny or inspired enough to nail the peek-behind-the-Hollywood-curtain genre.

New York PostLinda 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.

San Francisco ChronicleTim 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.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen 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.

Washington PostTom 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.

NewsdayDiane 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.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

The Captain [is] a historic hotel now populated by every Hollywood stereotype ever dusted off for a sitcom pilot.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

Let's hope Welcome, as forced as "Christine" is relaxed, runs itself into cancellation sooner rather than later.

TV GuideMatt 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.

USA TodayRobert 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.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

Another single-camera comedy that fails to provide any laughs.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

Welcome to The Captain is less a TV show than a grim ransom note from the striking Hollywood writers.