The Blaze Reports: The new Scooby-Doo reboot "Velma" is being slammed for being overtly woke and for straying far from the innocent and beloved cartoon about a talking dog that helps solve mysteries.

The Wrap described the first episode, "Things kick off not just with a murdered high school girl, but with her brain cut out of her oozing corpse by a next-level serial killer."

According to Polygon, "The premiere starts with two cockroaches boning and then immediately segues to a nude girls’ locker room shower fight between characters having a metatextual argument about premiere episodes using nudity to cynically gain viewers’ attention."

Velma and Daphne kiss in the animated series, according to Collider.

Daphne is a drug dealer.

The Chicago Sun-Times revealed a conversation about dealing drugs between Velma and Daphne:

Daphne: “According to TV, it’s morally OK to deal drugs if your life is just kind of crappy. Like, your kid’s sick, you’re a widow with a mortgage, you have to live on a lake in Missouri.”
Velma: “Those are all white people, Daphne. Minorities on TV can only deal drugs to escape poverty.”

The Guardian said of the woke reboot, "Against the retro-drippy backdrop, though, Kaling weaves in jokes about the paradoxes that go hand-in-hand with femininity, patriarchy, and power."

According to the Hollywood Reporter, "'I speak truth without a filter, like every comedian before #MeToo,' declares Velma, never mind that the line doesn’t make a ton of sense coming from a proud feminist teenager in 2023."