‘Velma’ Is So Bad It's Spawned Psyop Conspiracy Theories

How bad is this show?

‘Velma’ Is So Bad It's Spawned Psyop Conspiracy Theories

Yesterday, HBO Max bragged that Velma, the new adult-rated Scooby Doo cartoon, was its most-viewed animated premiere ever. I’m not sure precisely what that says, given that the only other Max original animated series I can even think of is Harley Quinn, plus a bunch of other older series that WB Discovery recently murdered.

But people are certainly talking about Velma, that much is true. Just…not very positively. Velma currently has the lowest audience score I’ve seen for an HBO or HBO Max production, a 7%. To get that low requires not just “review bombing” but your show also likely has to be…genuinely bad.

And it is. Velma is very, very bad.

Now down to 6%...and dropping?




But here's the twist....

Velma is so bad in fact, that it’s spawning conspiracy theories that creator Mindy Kaling made what is essentially a parody of what the right wing thinks left wing comedy is like. As in, a show that not just recast most roles with new races, but also features loads and loads of “white guys, amiright?” jokes. The idea is that Kaling is a secretly conservative force in media trying to make the left look bad by making a cringey adult cartoon full of “this rich white guy has a small dong” jokes that the right can point at as everything wrong with race-recasted, social justice-influenced media.

If this is true, then Mindy Kaling tanked her own career by getting a a studio to spend millions on a show meant to be a troll. If that were true, my hat's off to her, although that seems extremely unlikely. More likely I think is that she made a race swapping super woke show because she thought that is what Twitter wanted. The problem is doing that and making the show so bad that even super woke twitter won't defend it.

 

Jinkies

 

They should have gone with the Linda Cardellini version of Velma.

That show was always pretty stupid, though. Yet, it is one of the few oldies which apparently still holds its appeal for kids, or had held it for a good while, from my childhood until Kaling's, if this show had been a part of her youth.

I saw a funny, campy sendup of the show, once, on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. But that lasted for about as long as that hook could remain amusing: a matter of minutes.


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