{"id":187692,"date":"2023-01-16T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbos-velma-series-slammed-by-fans-following-season-premiere\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T01:11:00","slug":"hbos-velma-series-slammed-by-fans-following-season-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbos-velma-series-slammed-by-fans-following-season-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO’s ‘Velma’ Series Slammed by Fans Following Season Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some are calling it ‘an insult to the franchise.’<\/p>\n

Despite many high hopes for velma<\/em>it looks like the Scooby-Doo<\/em> spinoff fell flat with fans.<\/p>\n

The animated series premiered on Thursday, Jan. 12. After its release, viewers headed to social media, venting about their disappointment with the HBO Max original, with some calling it “an insult to the franchise.”<\/p>\n

As of writing, the show has only earned 1.8 stars on IMDb<\/em>1.4 stars by audiences on Google, and a 46 percent rating by Top Critics (with an average audience score of 7 percent) on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n

velma<\/em> reimagines Scooby-Doo <\/em>as “an adult animated comedy series discovering the origin story of Velma Dinkley,” one of the original five <\/em>Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc.<\/em>. characters, now voiced by Mindy Kaling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Kaling, who also serves as an executive producer of the show, previously expressed excitement over the series and its re-envisioning of her character, Velma, as Indian.<\/p>\n

“We knew it would be fun for me to play Velma, but we had a conversation where Velma is white, and we have this new choice to do the show and If I’m voicing her, should she be white or should she not? ” the Never Have I Ever<\/em> creator told reporters earlier this fall, adding, “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.”<\/p>\n

While Kaling’s sentiment is in the right place, critics disagreed with her performance, calling it a “disappointment” despite the show’s incredible animation and design.<\/p>\n

“not a joke!!!!” Another Twitter user wrote alongside screenshots from Episode 2 of the series, condemning a line that seems to downplay the seriousness of the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy Mindy Kaling’s style of writing brown girls that hate themselves wasn’t around when I was younger & only became a thing when I was at the age where I loved my heritage and skin color,” noted Women’s Republic founder Sai Sailaja Seshadri<\/strong>“I can’t imagine being young & already self conscious and then seeing that portrayal.”<\/p>\n