Velma Is Everything Wrong With Entertainment - Episode 1 Review

This Velma Review is from the new HBO Max series and episode 1. Far from being a modern-day Scooby Doo gang animation, it's entirely new. The names are the same, Scooby Doo doesn't exist, Shaggy is now Norville and every personality is utterly different. For a cartoon that defined a generation's childhood you have to ask, who is Velma for? Because to get Velma signed off on HBO Max someone had to watch this, and think it was good.

#Velma #Scoobydoo #HBOMax

[disparutoo]

Velma was NOT what I was expecting from a Scooby Doo series. How hard is it for HBO Max to just do a basic kids animation, or a more grown up version of the characters if they wanted to change the audience. Well Velma has entirely new people, with the same names (ish), new personalities and more stereotypes than you'd think it was possible in 25 minutes. But when I reached the end I still didn't understand what the plot was even meant to be. Don't worry, I'm sure I'll find out the horror of the entirety in episode 2, yay. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[papalaz]

"This is MY story, told MY way!" said every narcissistic psychopath self worshipping fanfic writer ever

[emilioochoa]

Anyone else confused as to why velma wasn't put in jail sure not for murder, but she assaulted a fellow student on school grounds with a deadly weapon; you'd think in this day and age something like that would warrant immediate incarceration.

[mbp]

Mindy asked Scooby to do the show and he said, *"Ruck rou".*

[rickrollrizal]

But Mindy is a rich socialite. She grew up rich.

[alasdaircook]

Are we not going to talk about the fact that Daphne’s mums kneecaped a minor and then arrested him in his own home with no evidence while Velma committed a B&E on said home?

[DarthDevorin]

"Make it super cringey!"

Mindy's advice to the writers somehow made it into the show.

[joelvannatta]

The scariest part of this show is when Velma admits that she would go around murdering people if she could get away with it. And the show expects viewers to think that this is a normal thing.

[Irreverent_Radiation]

I absolutely, utterly and completely died at the:

Norville: "Your face is the reason I wake up in the morning!"
Disparu: "And your face is the reason I hope I don't"

[Harmonica]

Velma brought about a somber realization to me. She-Hulk was as bad as I expected it to be all the way through. But Velma... Velma is unexpectedly, unbelievably, impossibly terrible to such an extent, it opened my eyes on how low things can get.

[matthewallen]

Don't care about Velma, ain't gonna watch Velma, no idea why anyone would watch Velma. But I'll always turn up to watch Disparu slam it...

[lance]

I didn't think Disparu would actually put himself through the torture of watching Velma, but he did it. That bastard did it!

[ignacius]

"What we find out about Velma is that she's a massive bigot." Had me rolling mate.

[hblaub]

The writing in the show is just so horrible.

Her mother's disappearance, the sudden love interest despite trying to murder her like five minutes before, the father who isn't believable as a lawyer at all, the cops who are not at all capable in any way...

I feel reminded of the Rings of Boredom's cannibalistic Hobbits, which are really heartfelt and sweet in the eyes of their creators. Complete and utter reality distortion.

[patriciafenwick]

I didn't watch it, but watching your reviews is obviously more entertaining than losing 21 minutes and 15 seconds of my life. Another good one, Disparu. Cheered me up no end.
Keep it up!👍

[jpenir]

"Unfortunately I'm British I can't replicate that much enthusiasm" LOL. Subbed

[DKyle]

“I’m British, I can’t replicate that much enthusiasm.” Hahaha.

[silverscorpio]

"Normally origin stories are about tall handsome guys who struggle with being handed even more power."

I.e. "Fuck you Peter Parker, Tony Syark, Steve Rogers, ...."

[nagirondart]

"This is my story, told my way."

*This is not THE truth, this is MY truth!*

I had the exact same thought when I saw this opening. It comes across as so delusionally narcissistic, the only good possible plot twist would be that Mindy is full of s*** the entire time.

[TheSimpleMan]

I'm calling it, Velma's mom's the killer...