Velma has always seemed like a quirky experiment. Scooby Her Doo reimagined in Adult Her animated form, where the dangers were real and the jokes worse. It could have worked, but on all accounts… it doesn’t.
The first two episodes of Velma have arrived on HBO Max. They haven’t impressed critics much, but what about audience reviews?They are brutal.
Velma is currently being reviewed by critics with a very poor HBO-Max 50% rotten tomatoonly 9% out of hundreds of audience scores.
Before you jump in and say, “This is the review people bomb the show because the cast has gotten more diverse,” it’s… one of the weirdest things here.Velma seems upset both The potential audience aspect here. Sure, there will be people who don’t like the usual “diversity recast”, but watching the show itself, it almost doesn’t feel like it. tease Percentage of shows with diversity casting or social messaging.What you assumed to be the show’s more left-leaning fanbase is actually somewhat dwarfed by creator Mindy Kaling. conservative As evidence of her personal views, people are citing past comments she’s made, as well as liking a recent JK Rowling tweet.
More than anything, it feels like the humor doesn’t really connect with any audience. It looks like a thing. Scooby-Doo has enjoyed great success over the years in both children’s cartoons and live-action movies. It’s possible that an animated version for adults of this concept could have worked, but this iteration seems to have rubbed all potential viewers the wrong way. A show to share, but its potential liberal viewers are writing it off because of how hostile it is.
It’s a shame because this is a really great cast… Constance Wu, Sam Richardson, Glenn Howerton. And whether it’s back in The Office, The Mindy Project, or the more recent Never Have I Ever, I’ve certainly liked Kaling’s work before. Something’s gone big wrong here, and it’s been roasted harder than most new shows I’ve seen since Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin, and yet the ratings eventually climbed to his 13% Did. Nothing else currently compares in terms of how bad Velma scores. both Both sides of the aisle hate it for a variety of reasons. What a strange situation.
Update (1/15): Time hasn’t improved this as more people watched the show, which HBO now says is the most-watched Max original animated series premiere of all time (there’s nothing else to compare it to). Not that there aren’t many, even Harley Quinn premiering in the DC Universe.
- With nearly 3,000 reviews, Velma has an audience score of 7%. rotten tomato.
- Velma has a user review of 0.4/10. metacritic (59/100 from critics).
- Velma has an audience rating of 1.4/5 Google.
- With nearly 9,000 votes, Velma has a 1.7/10 endorsement. IMDB.
In short, Velma has reached the Holy Trinity. In fact, it’s bombarded with right-wing viewers complaining about “woke up” content. Still, unlike other series that do this, left-wing audiences don’t think the show can be defended, Also Low rating. Not because of the “woke up” content, but because it’s just… bad. And then there is the third pillar. Upset Scooby-Doo fans who love the classic series and IP and hate being used in this way for bad adult cartoons. Based on the reviews I’ve been reading online, it might actually be the largest group.
Mindy Kaling continues to draw outrage online for Velma, with many citing her constant ‘self-insertion’ into her series and Indian girl craving white attention The recurring theme of doing so is similar in her other shows.
However, it has also been raised that Charlie Grundy is actually credited as Velma’s creator. It has been, the son of a former Love Boat star and congressman whose mother is a Hollywood television writer. looking for an explanation of this bad.
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