- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 3, 2013
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What makes Welcome to the Family interesting, and rather sweet, is that it confounds expectations.
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Welcome to the Family may have the most potential of the new Thursday comedies, for the simple reason that it depends largely on careful character development as the grounding for its humor.
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Everyone does their bit, performance-wise, but O'Malley, who came to everyone's attention as Kurt's father in "Glee," is the key player here. He and McCormack instantly create a dryly endearing couple, while he and Chavira may turn out to have the most fruitful antagonism since Maude met Archie Bunker.
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Welcome to the Family is not as bad as it sounds, mostly because some of the writing is clever, and all the actors are good. But Ms. McCormack in particular brings a likably tough, funny texture to the often thankless job of mother of the pregnant bride.
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There are no awful characters and no bad actors; this is a cute little show that exceeds expectations. What it's yet to provide, though, is a compelling reason to watch.
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The sharp performances of the combative in-laws-to-be help sell the overdone situation.
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While Family has predictable moments, it has the potential to provide some pleasant surprises.
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Welcome to the Family is a passable half-hour that fends for itself without a laugh track and manages to deliver a few un-goosed grins.
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There are moments in the pilot where a smarter, more closely observed Welcome To The Family peeks through.... The most unfortunate victim of Welcome To The Family’s pacing is the pilot’s sense of humor.
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Welcome to the family is nicely cast.... [But it] needs to punch up the writing. [28 Oct 2013, p.47]
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There are a few chuckleworthy lines, but overall the show is aiming straight down the middle, and that's exactly where it ends up. [25 Oct/1 Nov 2013, p.94]
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The men are neanderthals, the women are the sitcom cliche peacemakers.
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There's nothing terrible about the pilot of NBC's Welcome to the Family, but nothing that explains how it attracted Mike O'Malley, Mary McCormack , Ricardo A. Chavira and Justina Machado.
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Not great, not terrible, Welcome to the Family is another occasionally amusing but not really funny family comedy.
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This is the kind of exaggerated, cliched humor more common to CBS, laugh-track sitcoms despite the best efforts of a talented cast. They’re just wasted here like so many drivers of the star vehicles this season.
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O’Malley and Chavira and McCormack elevated the material they were given. And they were good. At the same time, there wasn’t enough else in Welcome to the Family to make me want to watch any more of it.
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Welcome to the Family has no edge at all, not even a pretend edge.
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Welcome to the Family's storyline is so predictable, it doesn't warrant watching.
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The performers do deserve some credit for giving the exercise the old college try, even if Junior and Molly probably won’t get the chance. Even so, Welcome to the Family offers precious little reason to roll out the welcome mat.
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This feels like "funny" by focus group, one composed of cloistered network executives.
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A parade of stale stereotypes.
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The bigger problem is, this show clearly has designs on being the next "Modern Family" and yet it isn't charming in the slightest. To hook viewers, the pilot needs to make them care about at least one person in this ensemble, and it can't manage that.
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My nominee for quickest and most punitive cancellation ... What a limp and unfunny show.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 18
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Mixed: 2 out of 18
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Negative: 10 out of 18
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Oct 11, 2013
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Oct 10, 2013