Velma is back for a second season. After the first season's overwhelmingly negative audience reception, season two landed (in its entirety) on Anzac Day.
Yes I am catching up after a number of seasons like HBO Max's fellow series Hacks just returned, along with Disney+ giving us The Veil with Elizabeth Moss.
So will HBO Max (or is it just Max now?) continue the adult animated series based on the character Velma Dinkley from the Scooby-Doo franchise?
Featuring the voices of Mindy Kaling, Sam Richardson, Constance Wu and Glenn Howerton.
So how's the plot wrap in the second season? SPOILERS AHEAD!
Knowing Uncle Scoobi is watching her every move, Velma and Daphne swap bodies and pose as each other for the remainder of the investigation, getting a feel for how they're perceived by other people.
Uncle Scoobi sees through this ruse and incapacitates both, threatening to shoot Daphne after they escape. Velma deduces that their true identity is Sophie, who has been an undercover soldier the whole time and concealed her identity so her male superiors would take her seriously.
Meanwhile, Norville and Lola discover that Dr. Purdue has the popular girls' bodies, and is planning to implant her brain into one to get out of hiding in exchange for doing the same for Scrappy.
Having a change of heart, however, she puts the girls' brains back in their bodies. Upon being betrayed, Scrappy crashes the double wedding and fatally wounds Velma, but ends up dying after Velma's ghost possesses his body.
Dr. Purdue is unable to restore Velma's body, but Amber reveals they can revive her with magic, albeit only on Halloween night after finding a spell that works.
It ends (sort of) on a cliffhanger, however I would be highly surprised if Max (yep it is just Max now) gave this a third run. So many previous Max comedy titles got two seasons then the chop. The Flight Attendant, Love Life, Made of Love (that's a lot of love titles), Minx (technically one season, one season on Starz), Rap Sh!t from HBO darling Issa Rae and recently Our Flag Means Death. Only Hacks, the upcoming return of The Sex Lives of College Girls and the change of And Just Like That... from a miniseries to a series, have made it to season three.
So the odds are on a cancellation for little old Velma.
Either way it streams on Binge in Australia. The Sex Lives of College Girls returns this year on Binge, while And Just Like That... like a number of mothership HBO titles returns in 2025.
Stay dry this weekend Sydney. I currently have three pairs of shoes out due to the wet weather LOL
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