Velma becomes the third lowest rated show in IMDb history

Velma has become the third lowest-rated show in IMDb history after the first four episodes aired... Jinkies!

Velma Dinkley is a beloved character from everyone's favorite childhood show Scooby-Doo and the live-action Scooby movies, all of which are absolutely timeless.

For those who are unaware of the adventures of Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma - they travel around in the Mystery Machine solving spooky cases of ghosts and monsters that nearly always concludes with a grand unmasking of the culprit.

The latest installment of the characters hasn't gone down too well with fans, as it doesn't include the loveable Great Dane at all.

Played by Mindy Kaling, the new series centers around the origin stories of Velma and how she came to be the sleuth in the Mystery Inc. gang.

As per the Daily Mail, the new series takes a more adult-humor approach to the character, and this has led to some critics claiming that the characters are "over-sexualized."

After four episodes the show currently sits on an IMDb rating of 1.3, which makes it the third-lowest-rated on the site leaving it just ahead of The Pogmentary (a documentary about soccer star Paul Pogba) and Iste Bu Benim Masalim (a show about the rise of a Turkish teen star), which have scores of 1.1 and 1.2 respectively.

Considering the lowest possible score on IMDb's reviewing system is 1, being 0.3 above that gives some idea of how poorly the show has been received.

At the time of writing, the average audience score for Velma on Rotten Tomatoes stands at 6% with an average score amongst critics of 50%.

Critics have not held back on slamming the show, with Nadira Goffe from Slate stating: "Velma’s attempts at modernizing the franchise are so inept, they’ve given rise to conspiracy theories that Kaling intentionally made Velma bad as fodder for an ongoing culture war in which people would beef about it incessantly online."

Darren Franich from Entertainment Weekly said: "Velmais the new bland, a deconstructed canonical bonanza pulled right off the corporate assembly line. It's so extra it's minus."

It seems like the new series hasn't sat well with viewers at all. In the immortal words of Scooby Doo - Ruh Roh!

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