Welcome to Flatch

Welcome To Flatch gets out of the gate almost fully-formed, with a world we want to watch and characters that are funny and have the potential for a lot of room to develop.

Confident world-building, likable cast chemistry and just the teeniest touch of sweetness soon make Flatch feel like home, as familiar and welcoming as your own neighborhood.

“Flatch” could stand to be a little funnier at times, but the characters are goofily likable enough to make this another broadcast comedy worth watching.

The show is determined to be all heart to a degree that comes off as a little forced. Welcome To Flatch roughly clicks around episode six (“RIP Cynthia”), though, by honing in on the whole ensemble during an absurd funeral plot. It’s here that the show finally finds something of a comedic groove.

Straley, Holmes and Scott bear watching. But Feig and Bicks might want to make some changes before rolling out the welcome mat. In “Welcome to Flatch,” it’s often difficult to focus.

Is “Welcome to Flatch” mocking people who live in small towns or embracing their idiosyncrasies? After screening five episodes, I’m afraid that the answer feels too often like the former, and that this is a show made by people who have never lived anywhere near a heartland town like Flatch and probably wouldn’t visit there if you paid them.

If “Flatch” were genuinely smart or funny it might be forgiven its offenses. ... Why make these two [Kelly and Shrub] the focus of the show? It’s a bit baffling given the mindlessness of their adventures, but they do fit the agenda, if the agenda is making rural Americans look shiftless, ignorant and incurious.

Wow. I've never seen a show try so hard to be funny and quirky and smart, and fail so completely. It tries to be 'Parks and Rec', 'Schitts Creek', and 'The Office', but fails so totally and completely at all three, all the time. The characters are boring, uninventive, and uninteresting. The interaction between them is boring, uninventive, and uninteresting. The stories are boring, uninventive, and uninteresting. If this is supposed to be a glimpse into small town life... HARD PASS. There isn't a single genuine laugh, a single enjoyable moment, or a single thing to care about - AT ALL - in the entire series. Not one. I've watched every episode hoping it'll get better... and it never does. It's just a continuing loop of unfunny people, unfunny plots, and unfunny stories. Don't invest even a minute of your time with this boring bore of boredom.