'Worse Than the First': Velma Season 2 Shredded by Critics and Viewers After Max Debut (2024)

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'Worse Than the First': Velma Season 2 Shredded by Critics and Viewers After Max Debut? ›

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Victoria Jones (nee Meeting), is the main antagonist of the HBO Max animated series Velma.

In the new TV-MA-rated series, Velma Dinkley is Indian. This decision to change the character's background (she's been a white character since 1969) was partially inspired by Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, and Rodney Rothman's animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which features a Black Spider-Man.

Velma Season 3 does not have an official release date, but it could likely be announced in the future. On the one hand, HBO Max is likely waiting to see how Velma Season 2 performs in the coming weeks in terms of viewership and ratings before they decide to renew the show for a third season.

In Ruby and Spears' original series bible, Fred and Shaggy are each 17 years old, Daphne is 16, and Velma is 15. For the purposes of this series, the kids were made roughly the same age: 16-17 in season 1, and 17-18 in season 2.

Charles Grandy, Velma's showrunner, has explained that what made the original Scooby-Doo content for children was the presence of Scooby-Doo. Warner Bros. Animation also said that the show could not use the dog in this adult spinoff, which ultimately coincided with the creative team's desire to make a more mature take.

Outside of two (offscreen) murders and a smug meta-opening scene filled with cartoon nudity, Velma doesn't utilize its R rating and the creative freedom that the adult-only certification affords the series.

Scrappy-Doo was a genetically/mechanically modified dog, created by Project S.C.O.O.B.I. to appeal to meddling kids, as per request of Uncle SCOOBI, herself, as she believed that a cute, charismatic, catchphrase-spewing canine would be the perfect way to infiltrate and monitor crowds of young animal rights activists ...

"We were really inspired by [the animated film Spider-Man:] Into the Spider-Verse — it's animation, we can do anything. The essence of Velma is not necessarily tied to her whiteness. And I identify so much as her character, and I think so many people do, so it's like, yeah, let's make her Indian in this series."

Is Velma Mexican Scooby-Doo? ›

In the 1969 series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Velma Dinkley is an American girl. She was inspired by and modeled after Zelda Gilroy from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, played by Catholic-Jewish-American actress Sheila James Kuehl.

Blame the character's legacy. HBO Max's latest entry into the Scooby-Doo canon, Velma, has the kind of pedigree that usually signals hit. Executive produced by veteran TV auteur Mindy Kaling, who also voices the animated series' title character, it's a show about one of pop culture's most beloved nerds.

Parents need to know that Velma is an animated update/spin-off of the beloved 1970s cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? But this one is intended for adults: There's much more mature material here than in the original. Violence is often played for laughs but may be more intense than parents…

On the streamer's official X/Twitter feed April 1, Warner Bros. Discovery's Max subtly announced the second season of its mixed-reaction Scooby-Doo spin-off Velma, executive produced by and starring Mindy Kaling. The new episodes will drop April 25.

Upon being betrayed, Scrappy crashes the double wedding and fatally wounds Velma, but ends up dying after Velma's ghost possesses his body.

Well, this show was greenlighted for two seasons. That's the only reason of why there is a season 2.

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Parents need to know that Velma is an animated update/spin-off of the beloved 1970s cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? But this one is intended for adults: There's much more mature material here than in the original. Violence is often played for laughs but may be more intense than parents…

The show has been renewed for season 2 following record-breaking viewership numbers at Amazon Prime Video, and we're going to the legendary New Vegas and the Mojave Desert next time. The show's story takes place more than 200 years after the Great War of 2077, in which humanity almost wiped itself out.