Velma

gingergirl455 shared a tip "I've started watching this and it is weird to my old school Scooby Doo self... Will update if I have further thoughts. Check it out for yourself. :UPDATE : I gave it a few episodes and I just don't like it. I agree with some of the reviews listed here and will not give it anymore of my time."

miaparker shared a tip "😝👎🏾👎🏾 Ruh-roh-RAGGY!!! … This show stinks like a big ol’ pile of poo 😷🐕💩 And, SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU??? ….Yer not even part of the cast!!"

SagesRain shared a tip "This show is uncomfortably racist and sexist. It's cool to finally see an R rated Scooby Doo show, but Its pretty hard to sit through all the meta jokes and rough dialogue. I think a show similar to 2010's 'Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated' but with a hard R rating would have been a lot better."

queer-giraffe shared a tip "The trailer for this looked interesting and I'm usually down for a meta-(insert genre here) project. Unfortunately, I'm one episode in and all I have to say is: 🤮 insufferable trash🗑️.....Honest question, who the fvck was this made for?"

sage_deforest shared a tip "disgusting, another lower decks. soul suckingly terrible "comedy" these aren't comedies these are us audience members being trolled by hateful creators who purposely lower the bar of society through their use of media."

RicoLoveDinero shared a tip "Mindy Kaling, Constance Wu, Sam Richardson and Glenn Howerton lead an adult-oriented animated series about the early days of the Scooby-Doo gang, minus Scooby-Doo. I still don’t know how to feel about this prequel after two episodes. It’s very self aware but it might play too much into meta humor. Its still a funny show so far that kept me somewhat entertained.The only thing I didn’t like is at times it almost seemed like Riverdale and I HATE that show. I really can’t judge it as a whole until I see the rest of the season."

rob_paul_4714 shared a tip "Wow, I have never seen a show get more vitriol than this one. Scooby fans are fired up! I was never a huge fan of the original, but like everyone my age, I’ve seen them all. And the one thing you Can Not Do is change Shaggy 180 degrees. It’s not the actors fault. It’s the way he’s written. We need to assume Shaggy is stoned 24-7. That’s my only problem and if that would have been different I could have really gotten into it."

marsh_6055 shared a tip "wow i hate this. i don't mind meta humor and its really nice to see diversity. but the comedic timing of this show sucks, and not one joke so far has made me laugh. watch venture brothers instead, it at least knows how to mock a genre with black humor. it sucks at portraying mental illness well, and i dearly miss the maturity of the characters in scooby doo on zombie island. here, they're universally hateful. and that's a rough sell for people with any affection for the original property."

Griffin17 shared a tip "SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS …….I watched the first two episodes tonight. It’s not my cup of tea. It’s like Big Mouth humour. They also changed the characters some. So Daphne is adopted by two mums and is a drug dealer. Freddie is a prepubescent creep with anger issues. Shaggy doesn’t smoke and is kind of fearless. Really the only thing that’s the same is their outfits and that Velma is gay. This isn’t Scooby Doo."

dorian_black_7262 shared a tip "When I first heard about this show, I legit thought it was just a joke or a hoax—basic human decency and even logic would say that an idea like this would NEVER make it to air on even the most desperate channel or streaming site. Apparently not; that or HBO Max is suffering from a massive unreported gas leak that somehow got this series to air. What can be said about the worst Scooby-Doo adaptation in the history of the franchise—that’s right, worse than Scrappy-Doo, worse than Reluctant Werewolf, worse than even Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue, even worse than those godawful live-action prequels on Cartoon Network. Where do I start? The terrible writing with every line being either faux woke slang from Twitter or the in-your-face meta speak? How about the mischaracterization of everyone being atrociously written as their absolute worst selves (including Shag—I mean Norville—having a one-note personality around “I hate weed” and that’s all his character is)? Just like the title implies, it’s all about Velma, unquestionably the worst character in the series, with a bullet. Velma is supposed to be the smart one, kinda dorky but passionate about her love of mysteries….in every other incarnation. Here, she’s toxic, judgmental, callous, spiteful, arrogant, egotistic, and yet parades herself as THE smartest person in the room and like she’s the first person in history to ever think or say any of what she says. Have you ever seen a series so reprehensible, so antithetical to its own source material you actually get defensive for the source material (even when you weren’t all that passionate about the original)? I’ll admit that I never had a strong connection to Scooby-Doo, but, if this series DOESN’T crash and burn hard, then HBO Max is going to assume that we want MORE of it, or even more shows LIKE THIS—a series so atrocious that I can’t even imagine watching it IRONICALLY. Not even as a hate watch, it doesn’t even deserve to be pirated; just leave it to rot like Scooby-Doo Arabian Nights or any of the red-shirt era Shaggy movies. Please."

mani_m shared a tip "I wanted to like it but it’s a lot, when scooby do I remakes do not have to be this raunchy & it’s still funny. A lot of stereotypical archetypes hidden in being diverse. Reminds me of HBO max’s Harley Quinn"

emo_gorl_4579 shared a tip "started out just really bad and unfunny. now, it’s at the very most mediocre. not worth the watch unless you like to torture yourself"

justhalo shared a tip "Nope, nah, not at all. Instead of making new characters or changing the setting of the IP, Velma goes against everything the Scooby-Doo brand has created (maybe besides from Be cool Scooby-Doo) and destroys beloved characters to drive a boring, repetitive, and mediocre story. Velma in essence spits in the audiences face and CALLS YOU OUT for watching the show. I can name one show that is 100% better than Velma that uses a similar universe of characters without ruining them. Heard of Harvey Birdman? Birdgirl does everything Velma tries to be. It has new and returning characters while introducing funny humor. Don't give Velma your time and give Birdgirl it instead as atleast it won't insult you for watching the show. Anyway, the show doesn't have Scooby-Doo at all."

melissa_craver shared a tip "Loved, loved, loved this! Mystery plus smart, funny dialogue that humanizes each of the Scooby gang before they became part of Mystery, Inc. some fun updates to character backgrounds with a perfect voice cast. I was only disappointed that there were just 2 eps available so far and I have to wait a week in between!"

tre_robi shared a tip "I understand why this show is problematic but aren’t most adult animated cartoons problematic? As a huge Scooby-Doo fan I was excited to see the gang with some POC and 2SLGBTQIA+ cast members. Scooby was always my fave part of the so not seeing him was disappointing. Velma was very annoying and it would’ve been nice to see more of the old Scooby-Doo elements but overall I don’t think it deserves all the hate that it gets."

brink shared a tip "there’s nothing funny about this show to be honest, it’s like a terf took a show kids loved and literally destroyed anything that remotely resembles the scooby doo franchise or the scooby doo characters and their interpersonal relationships- and replaced it with crappy, offensive humor, blatant racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. and mixed it all together to produce a show that doesn’t hold its own in any category. i’ve never been and never will be a fan of shows that have such terrible writers that the only humor they’re capable of is offensive, because it’s just plain bad. i strongly recommend avoiding this show like the plague it will only infuriate you."

realstibby shared a tip "I had to watch this for myself. I saw the "metoo" joke everywhere and became obsessed. Like, what are you talking about? It's in general a pretty standard "comedy before everything was so PC" type joke but it references a specific cultural phenomenon that has little to nothing to do with the contents of anyone's comedy act. Why? The truth is that this show is just kind of lazy. It's mostly just kind of mediocre because it's all first-thought jokes... although I still don't understand where that particular reference came from or how anyone thought it was a good idea."

explodingtardis10 shared a tip "It has all the great elements of a high school show. Breaking the fourth wall is a clever way of commentary on Velma always being seen as unattractive and the struggles of being Indian American. I don't understand the hate for this show. This is when all the characters first meet each other. You don't always get along at first. Teens are also not the nicest and this is a modern take on HBO. I think it's hilarious and am excited to see where it goes."

creative-circles shared a tip "A terrible take at making a beloved kids show an adult comedy. It could have been played off better, but it simply was not. I watched every single episode in hopes of it getting better, but alas, it was one of the worst plays of Scooby Doo I’ve ever seen."

Cinnamon_ shared a tip "I feel like they tried too hard for all the characters. They also COMPLETELY CHANGED the characters! I’m like super distraught and ******. After watching the first episode, I can’t keep watching it. It’s awful"

joonbolt shared a tip "The characters are basically new people from the original, doesn’t even have scooby doo 😭, I and is sexist. Good idea wrong execution"

angela_tyson_8848 shared a tip "I tried to give this a chance, I’ve watched the first six episodes and it’s just not good. I have been waiting to laugh, but it’s not funny. I think they tried to hard to edgy."

cjhend02 shared a tip "This show was absolutely disgusting. I suffered through the first episode. I was full of facepalms and eyerolls. The writers, directors, and actors should be ashamed."

subria_burkhalter shared a tip "2.5/5 it’s wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t great. I like the idea of Velma having her own show and it being adult comedy. Many parts was sexiest and racist. Where the heck is Scooby doo? I hope it has better writers for season 2 because it has potential! #adultcartoon"

pikato_lord_of_flies shared a tip "It's like they got a bot to watch 20k hours of everything from adult swim that was canceled after the pilot cause it sucked, and made it write a story based on that algorithm. Velma sucks."

anna_speare shared a tip "As a woman: It's awful, it's sexist, and it's trying way too hard to be something different. I genuinely don't understand how the voice actors are ok recording some of these episodes. The very first line is about oh men suck this show isn't gonna be about men, no men music, no story line for the men characters. Does anyone remember Lilly Singh attempt at a show? And its so funny how HBO acknowledged the amount of hate toward the show and said they didn't care and already are making season 2. The amount of bad news coming out about Mindy Kaling is crazy, its hard to believe the same person was part of The Office writing."

samuel_white_7032 shared a tip "Don't know what audience she was hoping to reach with this but I couldn't laugh because the dialogue sometimes makes me feel like the creators may not like my kind"

vannahhabs shared a tip "Most chronically online show. As a “Gen-z” with adult humor I find this show terribly executed, unfunny, and nothing like scooby-doo? They made Fred into this character with these “annoying shallow privileged white male” traits making him also incredibly unlikeable, very different from the original. Sooooo disappointedd!!"

wa_ford shared a tip "In my honest opinion it’s not really a good show. Its just from all the clips I have seen it’s weird and they make the characters really unlikeable. None of the “jokes” they have land it just make them sound sexist. And how they portray the the gang, it make them seem as totally different characters that have no substance really :/. Okay I’m gonna stop writing. Ps this isn’t rant more of just my true thoughts on it idk Byee."