HBO Max’s ‘Velma’ is being watched in full reviews and online

Velma always seemed like a bit of a strange experiment, a reimagining of Scooby Doo in an adult animation format where the danger is real and the jokes are more brutal. It might work, but it doesn’t do it all the time. Not happening.

The first two episodes of Velma have arrived on HBO Max. They haven’t really impressed the critics, but the audience reviews? they cruel.

Currently, Velma is receiving very-poor reviews for HBO-Max 50% from critics. Rotten tomatoesAnd is only 9% from hundreds of viewers score.

Before you jump in and say “it’s people reviewing the show that bombed because it made the cast more diverse” that’s one of the weird things here. Velma seems disturbed by this Both Here is the aspect of its potential audience. Sure, there will be the usual “diversity recasting” haters, but if you watch the show, it almost feels like it. having fun of variety casting or social messaging programs. It is speculated that the show will have an even more left-leaning fanbase to accuse the show’s creator, Mindy Kaling, of actually being somewhat made up. conservative project, people cite things like past comments she’s made and liking recent JK Rowling tweets as evidence of her personal views.

Above all, it feels like the humor doesn’t really connect to any audience. It feels like the show is trying to piss off anyone who watches it, and the Scooby Doo IP seems almost secondary to the entire concept. Scooby Doo has had great success over the years as both a children’s cartoon and live action movies, and while some adult animation version of the concept might have worked, this iteration seems to have rubbed all potential audiences the wrong way. It’s a show in which Daphne and Velma finally share a kiss, and yet its potential liberal audience is writing it off because of how antagonistic it all seems.

It’s a shame, because it really is a stellar cast here. Constance Wu, Sam Richardson, Glenn Howerton. And I certainly loved Calling’s work before, whether it was back in The Office, The Mindy Project or, more recently, Never Have I Ever. But Velma? Something went deeply wrong here, and it’s roasting harder than any new show I’ve seen on Netflix since The Witcher: Blood Origin. Although that too eventually climbed to a 13% viewership score. Right now, Velma has nothing else to compare it to in terms of how badly it scores, and it can’t blame a politically driven review bombing campaign. Both Sides of the aisle don’t like it for various reasons. What a strange situation.

Update (1/15): Time hasn’t improved this as more people have watched the show, which HBO says is now the most-watched Max original animated series premiere (there aren’t many others to compare it to, Harley Quinn even premiering in the DC Universe).

• With nearly 3,000 reviews, Velma has a 7% audience score Rotten tomatoes.
• Velma has 0.4/10 in user reviews Metacritic (59/100 from critics).
• Velma has an audience score of 1.4/5 Google.
• With almost 9,000 votes, Velma has a 1.7/10 IMDB.

In short, Velma has hit the holy trinity: it’s actually being bombarded by right-wing viewers who complain about “raunchy” content. And yet unlike other series that do this, left-wing audiences aren’t finding the show defensible, and too scoring low. Not because of the “woke” content, but because it’s just…bad. And then you have the third column, upsetting Scooby Doo fans who love the classic series and IP and hate that it’s being used this way for a bad adult cartoon. That might actually be the largest group, based on the reviews I’ve been reading online.

Mindy Kaling has drawn online ire for Velma, with many citing her constant “self-insertion” in her series, along with the recurring theme of an Indian girl desperate for white attention that has also been present in her other shows.

But it has also been brought up that Charlie Grandy is actually credited as the creator of Velma. Grandi has been a frequent ally of Collings and has been accused of being a “nepotism” issue in the context of Velma’s issues, the son of a former Love Boat star and congressman, whose mother is a Hollywood TV writer. It’s gotten very personal with these two, with many looking for an explanation as to why it’s Velma. this bad

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