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80The 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.
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80If 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."
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80Hip in tone but traditional in spirit, it's not at all hard to feel welcome at the Captain.
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70Nothing 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.
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60Welcome to the Captain attempts a similarly shaggy, loose sitcom vibe, but isn't quite successful, though it's at least watchable.
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60After 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.
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60The Captain has a great facade, but it's filled with people who will make you keep checking the real estate listings.
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60That's about where this show sits, on the rails, but with a little journey ahead to get from captain to rear admiral.
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50The characters are likeable enough so that you might even grow to care about them--and the show--in this arid writers' strike environment.
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50The trouble with Welcome to the Captain, outside of the title and romantic emphasis, is that two episodes haven't revealed any clear direction.
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50Sadly, Welcome to the Captain just isn't funny or inspired enough to nail the peek-behind-the-Hollywood-curtain genre.
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50The 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.
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50Kranz 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.
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40There'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.
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38The Captain [is] a historic hotel now populated by every Hollywood stereotype ever dusted off for a sitcom pilot.
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30Welcome 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.
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30Let's hope Welcome, as forced as "Christine" is relaxed, runs itself into cancellation sooner rather than later.
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25The 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.
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20Welcome to The Captain is less a TV show than a grim ransom note from the striking Hollywood writers.
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20Another single-camera comedy that fails to provide any laughs.
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