VelmaHBO MaxVelma always seemed like a bit of an odd experiment, a re-imagining of Scooby Doo in adult animation format where the danger is real and the jokes are more crass. It could have worked, but by all accounts it…doesn’t. Not at all. The first two episodes of Velma have arrived on HBO Max. They haven’t really impressed critics, but audience reviews? Those are brutal. Currently, Velma is reviewing with a very-poor-for-HBO-Max 50% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and has only a 9% from hundreds of audience scores. VelmaHBO Max Before you hop in and say “well this is people review bombing the show because it’s made the cast more diverse” that’s…kind of one of the weirdest things here. Velma seems like it’s upsetting both sides of its potential audience here. Sure, there will be the usual “diversity recasting” haters, but if you watch the show itself, it feels like it’s almost making fun of shows that do diversity casting or social messaging. It’s led what you might have assumed would be a more left-leaning fanbase for the show to accuse creator Mindy Kaling of making it actually a somewhat conservative project, as people cite past comments she’s made and things like her liking recen… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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