One of many most hated exhibits in tv historical past is someway getting a second season.

On Monday, the Chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers Tv Group, Channing Dungey, confirmed to Deadline that HBO Max’s Velma is being renewed.

HBO Max is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery.

The choice to follow-through with the second season, regardless of close to common rejection of the woke cartoon by viewers, is mind-boggling.

Though Velma’s premiere was the most-watched animated sequence opening on HBO Max ever, its viewers and critic scores instantly tanked upon debut and by no means recovered. It at present has an viewers rating of seven % on Rotten Tomatoes.

A few of the preliminary curiosity within the cartoon could have come from viewers hate-watching the sequence to see if it was actually as dangerous as reported. Quite a few well-liked critics took to YouTube to roast it after its premiere. 

It is uncertain such hate-watchers will tune in for a second opening, nonetheless. One was greater than sufficient.

Warner Brothers Discovery, the conglomerate behind this mess, is the corporate whose massive brains thought CNN+ could be successful. The leisure big skilled large monetary cuts final yr, together with at HBO Max.

Nonetheless, its chief monetary officer sounded optimistic in the beginning of 2023, particularly about bettering HBO Max’s content material.

“We’re going to return out with an incredible product from a consumer-experience perspective, and that’s, frankly, the most important holdback for HBO Max proper now,” WarnerMedia CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels advised a convention in early January. “The expertise is just not the place it must be.”

Selling a fiasco like Velma, then preserving it for a second go-around, is not precisely getting “the expertise the place it must be” at HBO Max.

Maybe the corporate is decided to advertise a woke agenda at any value to its backside line, very like its rivals, corresponding to Disney+.

Regardless, I will probably be avoiding Velma subsequent yr it doesn’t matter what. Even a tv reviewer can solely take a lot ache.