Despite the backlash, the Velma premiere made the Scooby Doo spin-off HBO Max's most-watched animated original show in the history of the platform.
Despite the massive backlash that the show has taken, Velma is now HBO Max's most-watched animated original show. An adult spin-off of Scooby-Doo that follows the gang long before they meet their titular talking dog, Velma follows the gang through their meetings and early years in high school as they try to solve multiple murders and the disappearance of Velma's mother.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Shortly after Velma's launch, Kaling took to Twitter to announce that Velma had the biggest premiere day for an animated HBO Max original show. Check out her tweet below: Despite massive fan backlash that saw Velma review-bombed on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, the show has drawn crowds. Velma has been paying off for HBO Max, thanks to its incredibly high ratings that are shattering the platform's previous records — despite the intentions of the review-bombing viewers who hoped to see the show utterly fail.Velma Backlash Explained The backlash against Velma has multiple reasons, some of which are more justifiable than others.
Of course, the show has also received a fair amount of criticism for its depiction of the Scooby-Doo gang. Since many viewers were raised with Scooby-Doo, a fair amount of nostalgia will come with every franchise reboot. Yet the idea of explicitly taking a Scooby-Doo spin-off and making it into an adult comedy has drawn massive backlash. An R-rated Scooby-Doo spin-off is a bad idea because it isolates audiences who come to the show expecting to touch on their lasting nostalgia.
The lack of Scooby-Doo also feels misplaced for a show about the Scooby-Doo gang, which raises the question of why the show was made. After all, without Scooby, the gang is just a group of teenagers living in a van, which hardly seems particularly interesting. The talking dog makes the mysteries more fun and absurdly interesting.
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