Welcome to the Captain
CBS | Release Date: February 4, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
10
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Hip in tone but traditional in spirit, it's not at all hard to feel welcome at the Captain. Read full review
80
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Season 1 Review: 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." Read full review
70
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
60
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Welcome to the Captain attempts a similarly shaggy, loose sitcom vibe, but isn't quite successful, though it's at least watchable. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
60
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: That's about where this show sits, on the rails, but with a little journey ahead to get from captain to rear admiral. Read full review
60
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: The Captain has a great facade, but it’s filled with people who will make you keep checking the real estate listings. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyAlynda Wheat
Season 1 Review: Sadly, Welcome to the Captain just isn't funny or inspired enough to nail the peek-behind-the-Hollywood-curtain genre. Read full review
50
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: The characters are likeable enough so that you might even grow to care about them--and the show--in this arid writers' strike environment. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: The trouble with Welcome to the Captain, outside of the title and romantic emphasis, is that two episodes haven't revealed any clear direction. Read full review
50
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
40
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: The Captain [is] a historic hotel now populated by every Hollywood stereotype ever dusted off for a sitcom pilot. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Let's hope Welcome, as forced as "Christine" is relaxed, runs itself into cancellation sooner rather than later. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
20
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Welcome to The Captain is less a TV show than a grim ransom note from the striking Hollywood writers. Read full review
20
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: Another single-camera comedy that fails to provide any laughs. Read full review
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