Max simply gave us all a Scooby Snack.
The Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service launched the trailer to the second season of its unique grownup animated sequence “Velma” on April 15, 10 days forward of its April 25 premiere.
“Velma” from Warner Bros. Animation will get one other 10 episodes starting every week from this Thursday. In Season 2, when a good spookier thriller grips Crystal Cove, Velma (Mindy Kaling) should discover a method to steadiness her detective work with the calls for of her newfound reputation earlier than it’s too late, per Max. In the meantime, her trustworthy buddies Daphne (Constance Wu), Norville (Sam Richardson), and Fred (Glenn Howerton) are powerless to assist because of their very own private battles and worse… Detention.
The second “Velma” season additionally options the voices of Russell Peters, Melissa Fumero, Sarayu Blue, Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes, Cherry Jones, Frank Welker, Nicole Byer, Gary Cole, Andia Winslow, and Sara Ramirez. The sequence, developed by Charlie Grandy, is govt produced by Grandy, Kaling, Howard Klein, and Elijah Aron.
“Velma” is co-executive produced by Jessica Kumai Scott. The supervising producer is Amy Winfrey. Kandace Reuter and Rick Williams produce the sequence; Moss Perricone and Greg Gallant co-produce.
Watch the Season 2 trailer right here:
Kaling’s “Velma” is of South Asian descent, as is Kaling. The reimagining of the character (or actually, simply her tradition) sparked some preliminary backlash on-line. (What else is new?)
IndieWire’s Proma Khosla took on the difficulty in January 2023, chalking up a lot of the early damaging response to “Velma” to Kaling “fatigue.” There may be, after all, additionally the racism and misogyny.
“On the prime of a listing of qualms lobbied on social media is that ‘Velma’ seems to be one other character in a well-recognized Kaling mould: an Indian-American girl with a particular cocktail of dry humor and self-loathing, whose identification isn’t intertwined along with her tradition and who has a crush on a cis-het white male,” Khosla wrote.
Khosla acknowledged that these issues are “legitimate” within the instances of Kaling’s “The Intercourse Lives of School Women” or “By no means Have I Ever,” however identified that the “Mindy Undertaking” star didn’t write or create “Velma.”
“The character undoubtedly took form round her casting, however the present bears a number of displaced viewer frustration (and an obvious tide of hate-watching),” Khosla wrote.
Earlier in the identical month, Khosla reviewed “Velma” Season 1 — she finally gave the cartoon a “B-” grade.