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They need to remove the comedy tag. Seriously, in no way shape or form could this be considered a comedy.

Imagine taking a kids show and turning it into a disgusting college frat house drama where everyone is a bully and vomiting for laughs. This might be the most hate filled re-interpretation of a cartoon I've ever seen.

The people who created this show obviously have an agenda here. Are they really going for 100% rage views? Is destroying an established franchise going to get them into some secret Hollywood club? Do the creators have some kind of personal vendetta against Scooby-Doo from their childhood? I really don't get it.

This was atrocious. I watched the entire first episode and did not laugh once. Not even a chuckle. The jokes were so juvenile, so heavy handed and the premise so far removed from the original IP, it was embarrasing. I was checking my watch throughout the episode. They made 27 minutes feel like an hour. Will she ever find her mom? I do not know, nor do I care. Why is this series about sex and what does any of the random sexual situations have to do with Scooby Doo? I also don't know, nor care. Speaking of which, where is Scooby and Shaggy? Shouldn't they be a part of this too? If the one kid is supposed to be Shaggy, I only assume because of his clothes, then I would like nothing to do with this alternate universe version of Scooby Doo. Personally, I feel like HBO and Mindy Kaling owe everyone and apology for this abomination of a series.

0 orgin stories out of 5.

I heard how bad this was so had to see for myself.

I was expecting to be laughing at how atrocious it was but it's not even bad enough to laugh at, like some terrible shows and movies. This was just so bad it was hard to believe what I was watching. My mouth was open in astonishment at how revolting it was.

How the hell did this get made? It's abysmal on every level. It's not even a train wreck. A train is on it's way performing its duty before it crashes. This train never left the construction yard. Shame the idea did.

The jokes aren't funny. It's not cool. It's not hip. It's the opposite. It's majorly offensive. Offensive for two reasons.

One for how terrible it is and it is really bottom of the barrel terrible, and two for it's obvious sexism and racism. What an absolute insult, really, to anyone with half a shred of respectability. I'm just staggered that this even exists.

And to have it based on a CHILDREN'S decades long loved series is just mind blowing. It's wrong.

Shame on the execs who passed this giant steaming turd. Every single person involved with green lighting and creating this 'show' deserves to never work again.

One of the worst programs ever made. Without exaggeration.

I'll preface this review by saying I have no problems with adult humor, or with a family friendly franchise being reimagined to include such. Nor am I outraged by the diverse casting. I approached Velma with an open mind, and it's just not good.

Like another HBO Max show, Harley Quinn, Velma is full of edgy and fourth wall breaking humor. Unlike that show, Velma seemingly holds nothing but contempt for its source material. Not one character behaves anything like you'd expect, and none of them are enjoyable to watch. Daphne is vapid and mean, Fred is a rich douchebag, and Shaggy is a bore. Velma herself comes across as Mindy Kaling's self-insert Scooby Doo fanfic character. She is the coolest, smartest, and funniest person in the room at any given time and multiple characters want to have sex with her. Everyone else is a loser. It's more sad than it is funny.

This show HATES its audience. It should not have been named Velma. Even the dubbing is odd. Glenn Howerton basically plays Dennis from IASIP as usual but in Fred's body. Daphne is crass, mean and vulgar and Velma is Mindy Kailing.

I don't understand why this is what we get when attempting something adult with the Scooby Doo IP. No one asked for this. The hate is warranted - it's an acceptable, albeit unfunny animation show that thinks it's a lot better than it is.

This was my main issue with the first two episodes: you can tell the writer's room was comprised of mostly "yes" people who thought every idea was edgy and current. Instead the finished product resulted in a convoluted, mean-spirited and just all around embarrassing start.

When you see reviews about a TV Show, usually there are two extremes. One side loves the show for its biases, and the other hates it. This is a rare occasion where the general audience opinion comes together and the majority is united in agreeing that this show is truly the lowest tier in almost every way possible.

Poorly written dialogues, inconsistent animation, and some of the saddest attempts at humor since Transylmania.

This show is only capable of satisfying a tiny group of people, which consists of the writers and kids with an underdeveloped sense of life that is solely based on Social Media. This show proves that we truly do need a 0 rating in IMDB, a new low in modern media.

This show is one of the worst things I've ever seen, and I would give it 0 stars if I could. I can't believe how poorly written this show is, how mean-spirited it is and how much contempt it has for its source material. It's not like it resonates with people because of the themes of teamwork, or found family, or about how different people with different personalities and goals and outlooks on life can be friends and love each other.

No, we have to character assassinate everyone, especially Fred and have everyone talk in petty, tired and divisive cliches. There's no word for it other than cringe. I am so sick and tired of these types of shows. At least they're keeping Scooby himself out of his this garbage.

Off to palette cleanse with the original show.

This show literally insults you. I've never known a show to actively try and make you hate it, this is abominable and one of the worst things I've ever seen, I can't stand it. It feels like a straight up slap in the face and I cannot stress this enough, it doesn't even have SCOOBY-DOO in it, what in the everloving God? I have no clue how this got greenlit and the okay from the higher-ups because I'd rather get hemorrhoids than watch anymore of this. It's mentally tiring and I've never sighed from disappointment more than I have while watching this poor excuse for a show... Cancel this, please.

Writing sucks, jokes don't land, doesn't feel like scooby doo at all.

More like they wrote a show and put scooby doo characters over their own characters.

This is the type of show you start watching and you literally can't bring yourself to finish it because it hurts to watch, even if it wasn't scooby doo related it'd still be awful.

The humor is like I'm watching family guy or big mouth, but instead of there being a joke, it's literally just a pop culture reference with no "funny" attached to it.

If shows were to be represented with cereal, this show would definitely be a bowl of wheat with no milk. No flavor, no comedy, nothing.

Honestly I'd actually rather eat a bowl of wheat instead of watch this.

It needs to be canceled Immediately and whoever approved this needs be fired it isn't funny It's cringe and offensive it has nothing to do with Scooby-Doo and it is destroying any versions of the velma character it is way to snarky and I don't see how anyone can find it entertaining what is wrong with HBO I'm tempted to cancel my subscription because I don't want to associate myself with people who put out crap like this I hope it backfires and blows up in your face also whoever finds this show entertaining needs to check their own morals Please do better Warner Brothes and put out better shows like Johnny Bravo.

I thought it was hilarious. It's like the most inappropriate version of Scooby. It's not good but it's not terrible. It's just sorta weird. When you're tired and you need to de-stress then it's hilarious. That's the best way to describe it. It's nothing like the original show. I'm not even sure they're solving a mystery lol laughing but serious! Loads of profanity and sexual situations. It would be funnier if the focused on the terrible cop characters and the mystery. But they are trying to make statements about gender roles and beauty expectations but these messages don't belong here. No one should take this show seriously but it's not terrible.

You know when someone thinks they are being really funny, when instead they are just being kind of rude and hateful? That would be this show. It felt more like an edgy YouTube spoof from the early 2000s than an actual show. You really didn't need to mess with such a great, wholesome and generation spanning IP. People are hateful and will review bomb movies and shows because they disagree with the politics or idea of the show. I figured that would be the case, but please know that these reviews are accurate. This show is truly insulting to its audience, the original creators and actors of these characters, and human decency in general.

I'll say this: the collection of voice actors they hired for this show is probably the best thing that show has going for it. The "comedy" is...it's just simply awful. Kaling turned a beloved character into a college course on how not to write characters or a show. I forced my way through episode one (really wanted to give this an honest review) but I won't be returning for episode 2...or possibly anything else produced by Kaling (or for that matter Grandy and/or Sekar it seems). Why did they try so hard to destroy the source material? I get that Scooby isn't in it so it was supposed to be its own thing but it almost seems...mean? Like they made it while angry at fans of the original? This one just sailed over the goal. Oh well. HBO Max is more like HBO Minimum now I guess...

This show is obviously trying to be the next Harley Quinn not realizing what made that show good . Harley Quinn writers unlike the writers of this show respected the dc lore and the characters still felt like their comic counterparts . I have nothing against Mindy Kalling . She was funny in the office . But she was miscast as Velma . This show is just a generic mystery show with Scooby Doo Character names being used . Did they seriously think this wouldn't flop . You can't do the mystery inc gang without Scooby . The original show wouldn't have become so big if it was just a group of kids solving mysteries . Seriously they couldn't figure away to include scooby . If you want a darker Scooby Doo watch Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Instead . That's a much better show with good character development and overarching plots . All they had to was do something similar to Mystery Incorporated . This is just bad and they changed the ethnicity of Velma and Shaggy for sake of representation . I'm a brown guy and have nothing against representation but I would have rather they have made new characters instead of changing existing characters.

Just saw Velma show up as a new show and I went into watching the first episode with no spoilers or expectations. It was both disappointing and a huge waste of time. I get that they're going for raunchy comedy, a spin on the original series isn't a bad idea but this was so poorly executed. The writing was absolutely effortless and unfunny.

The idea of a show with Velma as the focal point is great, the idea of recreating scooby-doo to be for a more mature audience is great, and this is wasted potential. I just don't understand who could both write and then "ok" this and believe it was good content.

Just really disappointing and shouldn't be associated with the scooby-doo franchise whatsoever.

YES... 1 star means that it's a thing. I mean a lot of people worked (not very hard) on the project so it deserves at least 1 star. But why only 1 star?

Let's start with visuals, it seems at times that the artists didn't have enough time to make enough frames, this not only resulted in boring or overly generic backdrops but the character animations seem jittery at times.

Audio- the audio quality is weird. It's almost like the characters didn't record their conversations together so the quality between characters in the same scene having the same conversation have 2 different audio qualities to listen to... imagine listening to 2 people talk in a room and one persons voice is unnaturally crystal clear and the other sounds like they have several layers of napkins infront of their mouth.

Characters: it seems like someone wrote a spoof of each character but was allowed to keep the names. It's like using the Venture Brothers characters but releasing the show as "Johnny quest 2023"

Dialogue: this show really needs laugh tracks... because nothing they say/do is remotely funny. I feel like we need an audio queue to know when a joke bombed.

Plot: well the first episode did a great job of assuming you should know what's going on without really going into detail of what is actually happening.

I am glad I survived the first episode, I don't know if I'll make it through the 2nd.

First thing first: I don't care about the race swaps, or the LGBTQ content added in, and I am actually all for an adult take on Scooby Doo. I also don't care when people take liberties with the source material = an "original" adaptation never ruins the source material, if anything, it just makes you appreciate the original more.

Now that that is out of the way: I could tell from the trailer that this probably wasn't going to be for me, but my curiosity got the better of me, and believing that you should let the art stand on it's own merits, I feel that this art deserves to stand on top of a raging dumpster fire.

Without giving away any spoilers, all the characters are completely unlikable. Fred is defined almost solely by his white privilege, Daphne is the typical hot dumb girl, and Velma is the angry awkward girl who "knows" she is better everyone. "Norville" is probably the only character I don't hate, but he isn't Shaggy. This is not Scooby Doo and the Mystery Gang. Its Mindy Kaling in animated cosplay still being Mindy Kaling. I'm sure some people who are fans of hers will find some enjoyment out of this, but it ain't for me.

And no, I am not at all exaggerating for the sake of getting attention from the reader here. I have seen virtually every iteration of Scooby-Doo, and experienced its highs and its lows as a franchise, and this is an all-time low. A complete misunderstanding of the property, terrible writing, horrid characterization, and a sense of humor which is so cynical you feel it is giving you the middle finger every minute.

This is a series I honestly cannot see really appealing to anyone. There is nothing for a fan of the property, there is nothing for the average member of the audience who just wants to laugh, there is not even anything for very progressive viewers who just need to see social justice on screen to scream "yaas queen, slay!"

BEWARE. See at your own risk.

I've been enjoying this new take on Velma and the gang. It looks straight on at all the very well known stereotypes that everyone always associates with this show. Ascot wearing, Ken doll looking, Fred, is exactly who we all thought he might be. Daphne, fits the bill in her role as pretty girl this time with an edge. It's a cartoon aimed at adults about kids in high school, weird things happen and everyone is confused about sex and life and then a lot of murders happen. It's humor is along the lines of South Park or Beevis and Butthead, somewhat ridiculous, a little bit shocking. It's funny, it's unique and it's not the same old Scooby Doo!

Saw the rating for this show and was perplexed why it was so low. We've been watching it and enjoying it quite a bit. It's snarky, funny and completely inappropriate for the younger crowd, but adults are the target audience. Is it anything like other scooby doo shows? Not at all. The trailers give you a good idea what you're going to see.

Velma, Daphne and Fred are nothing like their typical characters and that is quite alright.

The adult characters are interesting in their own right. Daphne's moms are cool. Horrible police officers but cool. Velma's Dad is a little pathetic but not unlike a lot of dads out there with a you her wife and new baby.

Don't let the low rating scare you away if the trailer piques your interest.

This series is one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life. I literally prefer to be blind and deaf than to have to watch and hear this big pile of horse crap. I cannot believe that they ruined HBO Max and they cancelled several good productions like "Looney Tunes: Bye bye Bunny" and The Porky and Daffy sci-fi comedy film, that could have been masterpieces, wonderful shows like Close Enough that was really enjoyable or Infinity Train. Some potential good shows wont probably be released anytime soon if at all, I am talking about series like The Flintstones sequel named "Bedrock", "Tooned-Out" or "Tiny Toons Loonyversity." All of these good series being cancelled for this garbage? Seriously? The characters have nothing to do with the original characters from the Scooby Doo franchise and the series is horrible, lame characters, stupid plot and no humor.

This crap is even worse than the Scrappy Doo era cartoons, when Scrappy Doo, one of the worst cartoon characters ever made, slowly replaced Daphne, Velma and Fred from the Scooby Doo series. Why they had to ruin HBO Max like that? This streaming platform could have had a lot of animated gems right now, but they ruined everything. Good Job, HBO Max! I think I will cancel my subscription pretty soon.

This was just dull, I watched both episodes and I felt like I lost brain cells while watching this. If you want some silly comedies watch something like Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo that's actually funny. Just don't waste your time on this. It tries to be edgy without any decency and/or class. I wish for those minutes of my life back please. No? I guess not. I'm never watching this again, I'm staying away from this like it's the plague. Also I'll say this up front the writing is atrocious!! It was extremely stiff and forced in some areas in my opinion, especially from Velma herself. It was just dull, that's final.