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Not to worry, HBO Max has replaced all that with “Velma.”
by species9606 4y ago
Not to worry, HBO Max has replaced all that with “Velma.”
- richwater 4y agoI was actually jaw-dropped at how terrible the first episode was. HBO is normally known for high-quality content (even if I don't like it, it's not for me).
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- djur 4y agoI have yet to encounter a single person defending the show on these grounds, and I know or follow a lot of progressive/feminist/queer/etc. type people.
- bitwize 4y agoSome of the critics are, but far fewer than normal for this kind of thing, I think Mindy Kaling overplayed her hand.
- goldenchrome 4y agoHave you met anyone defending the show?
- micromacrofoot 4y agoI think this is a case where both takes are wrong, it’s a bad show, but not because of how they make fred a stereotype
- rhino369 4y agoHBO Max isn’t HBO—it’s HBO plus other Warner bros stuff. Velma was made by the non-HBO side.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThere has not been an HBO side for a few years now. ATT fired the HBO executives that made HBO HBO when ATT bought it.
- anderber 4y agoVelma, I believe, is a holdover from the previous regime. The current one is more likely to replace it with some sort of trashy reality TV.
- cptnapalm 4y agoWhich would likely be a massive step up from Velma.
- willis936 4y agoI have a hard time shaking the feeling that this was unironically the pitch for the show.
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- cm2187 4y agoI had never heard of it, but with an imdb rating of 1.7 for 10k votes [1], it makes it to the top 20 worst shows/movies (with over 10k votes) in history. The worst movie in that category seems to be a biography of Erdogan [2]. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14153790/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14153790/ [2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5988370/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5988370/
- thewebcount 4y agoI haven’t watched it yet, but it’s been out for less than a week, so I suspect that rating may change going forward. (Or maybe it really is awful? Feels like brigading to me, though.)
- cm2187 4y agoIn my experience, after 1000 votes, the rating has converged to its final value.
- nervousvarun 4y agoIt's a Scooby-Doo property...without Scooby-Doo (think the explanation for that is it's meant to be a "Velma origin story"). This is the kindof remake/re-imagining that gets made ostensibly for a different audience...but in the process alienates the traditional audience...which makes it end up with no audience. Mindy Kaling was a big part of the success of the American Office and has other successes in a relatively short career, so it's not hard to see why it was green-lit...but frankly it's rating is probably about what it should expected to be.
- astrange 4y agoIt seems like the kind of show where they wrote a script first and then turned it into Scooby Doo later.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoFrom what I've heard, it is unlikely to go up much. Absolute mess of a show that seems to go out of its way to insult any audience likely to watch it and who's only redeeming feature is that when the animators are trying they're doing a really good job.
- germinalphrase 4y agoI have no take on Velma, but “Be Cool, Scooby Doo” is perhaps the best of all the more recent iterations of the show. Good writing.
- anthomtb 4y agoI am getting a ton of adverts for "Velma" when watching YouTube. My YouTube habit is exclusively mountain biking, woodworking and home improvement. I am not sure how targeted YouTube's advertising is but have come up with three theories: 1) Data sharing with Netflix (I do love Big Mouth) 2) Using the content I watch as a correlation for my age, and therefore susceptibility to Scooby-Doo nostalgia. 3) Wide net, no targeting. YouTube is just blasting these ads to everyone. Nothing in the advertisements has piqued my interest in the show either. It looks uninspired.
- tgv 4y agoWhat part of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is so hard to get? This isn't bloody reddit.
- yywwbbn 4y agoYou seem to breaking multiple of those rules with your comment.