VELMA Returns For Twice The Meddling On First Season 2 Poster For Max's Adult Animated Series

VELMA Returns For Twice The Meddling On First Season 2 Poster For Max's Adult Animated Series

Despite dreadful reviews, Velma proved to be a pretty big hit for the Max streaming service, and the adult animated series is set to return for its second season later this month...

By MarkCassidy - Apr 11, 2024 01:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Scooby-Doo
Source: Via Toonado.com

It really wouldn't be fair to call the first season of Max's adult animated Scooby-Doo spin-off series, Velma, divisive - because you'd be hard pushed to find a single person who liked it!

In all seriousness, we're sure the show has its share of fans out there, but it was not well-received overall, sitting at 39% on Rotten Tomatoes with a truly abysmal 7% audience score.

Even so, somebody must have been watching, because Velma scored a high enough viewership to be renewed for a second season, and is set to return to the Max streaming service on April 25.

Showrunner Charles Grandy had the following to say of the negative reviews in a recent interview.

"The original Hanna-Barbera shows are still out there to watch. We are not erasing the originals. We just want to be a little ice planet on the outer regions of the Scooby-verse!...None of these characters are rooted to being white. We were worried about going to Warner Bros. and asking them to do it, but they said, 'Do it. It's time! Just make sure it's funny and good!'

"So, what I loved about [Velma] is she is the closest to what I could see -- a smart, A-student with thick glasses that are always falling off, skeptical. She has a lot of these amazing qualities," Mindy Kaling said when the show was first announced. "As a kid watching the reruns of the original Scooby-Doo, I felt like I really identified with this character. I love that she exists. She's not traditionally gorgeous. She just helps the gang out because she is so smart."

You can check out the first official poster below.

Velma focuses on the most underappreciated member of the Mystery Inc. gang, Velma Dinkley. The first season told the origin story of the bespectacled brainiac before she formed Mystery Inc. with Scoob, Shaggy, Fred, and Daphne, while unmasking "the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers.”

Kaling provides the voice of Velma, and is also credited as co-creator along with Charlie Grandy. The cast also features Veep’s Sam Richardson as Shaggy, Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) as Fred, and Crazy Rich Asians’ Constance Wu as Daphne.

Here’s the official synopsis for Velma Season 2: “When an even spookier mystery grips Crystal Cove, Velma (Mindy Kaling) must find a way to balance her detective work with the demands of her newfound popularity before it’s too late. Meanwhile, her faithful friends Daphne (Constance Wu), Norville (Sam Richardson), and Fred (Glenn Howerton) are powerless to help thanks to their own personal battles and worse… Detention.”

The voice cast also includes Jane Lynch (Glee), Wanda Sykes (The Other Two), Russell Peters (Life in Pieces), Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Stephen Root (Barry), Gary Cole (NCIS), Ken Leung (Industry), Cherry Jones (Transparent), Fortune Feimster (Kenan), Yvonne Orji (Insecure), Sarayu Blue (Never Have I Ever), Nicole Byer (Grand Crew), Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), and Scooby-Doo veteran Frank Welker.

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Spoken
Spoken - 4/11/2024, 1:46 PM
Twice the CRINGE!
Colton
Colton - 4/11/2024, 1:50 PM
"Scoobyverse" 🤢
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 4/11/2024, 1:50 PM
So many classics ruined by current day cringe disguised as progress.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 4/11/2024, 1:50 PM
@DarthOmega - Also Mindy's brother disguised himself as a black man to get into medical school.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/11/2024, 1:52 PM
The great thing about this show is it brought everyone together. We all hated it.
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 4/11/2024, 2:20 PM
@mountainman - I don’t know anybody who watched this show.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/11/2024, 2:55 PM
@WruceBayne - I have the first episode a watch after all the controversy and it was BAD.

I know absolutely nobody who watched it through. Just going based on online reactions, this terrible show brought together both sides of the culture war, who both hated it for their own reasons, but it did bring them together.
SATW42
SATW42 - 4/11/2024, 3:15 PM
@mountainman - "I know absolutely nobody who watched it through."

It's funny, I usually use the same argument about the second Avatar movie, and know people in movie theatres who say empty theatres were sold out, yet somehow it still made all the money.

It's almost like the real world and the internet are two separate things and on the internet google and social media follow your history and cater stories they think you'll respond to so you end up in your own echo chamber.


I'm not telling you to like this show, I didn't even watch it. I'm just saying just because you don't know anyone who did like it, doesn't mean they aren't out there. Somewhere where I live I'm sure someone saw Avatar 2, they just aren't vocal in my circles, online or IRL

SATW42
SATW42 - 4/11/2024, 3:17 PM
@mountainman - it did get positive reviews from sites like IGN, the Daily Beast, indiewire, guardian, USA Today etc etc.

So it's out there, just not where you choose to look
mountainman
mountainman - 4/11/2024, 3:21 PM
@SATW42 - I don’t tend to review every review site for any product, let alone one I have little interest in.

I bet I am more open to different perspectives and less in an echo chamber than you assume I am.
SATW42
SATW42 - 4/11/2024, 3:23 PM
@mountainman - we're all in forced echo chambers. It wasn't a judgement. Its practically impossible to not have an algorithm dictating what you're seeing on some level. Even if we don't realize it.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/11/2024, 3:28 PM
@SATW42 - Social media can be tough since the algorithms force it on us. One thing that helps me is that I use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram very differently so I get different types of feeds on each.

And then my YouTube is so freaking random. I bet the algo there hates me. I have such a large variety of stuff on there.

But you’re right that this is somewhat of the challenge of our age is not allowing yourself to think that your world is the world. Too many people think that way.

This is honestly one of the reasons I like this site. I get to interact with people who have different perspectives (like you at times). It’s good to have your views challenged.
Vigor
Vigor - 4/11/2024, 3:40 PM
@SATW42 - spot on. Also it's hard to be vocal about my enjoyment of avatar2 on the web because the negative commentary is SO LOUD. Who do I have to discuss the themes in the movie with if everyone seems to hate it and shuts down any conversations about it? 🤷🏾‍♂️
Fogs
Fogs - 4/11/2024, 3:49 PM
@SATW42 - Avatar:
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BeNice123 - 4/11/2024, 1:53 PM
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