that new Scooby Doo teen drama is the weirdest thing...

I wish people knew it’s okay to do shows in college not everything has to be about “ high schoolers”

I think the cast should’ve been in college instead of High School, because they look way to mature to even pass as a senior.

Okay but college would have been such a better setting. Let me paint the scene: Velma is a forensic science major and true crime fanatic. When a haunting starts happening on campus, she becomes obsessed with proving that a real person is actually behind it. Fred is an engineering major on a sports scholarship. He doesn't really care about athletics, he just wants to build stuff and helps Velma cause he gets to make traps. Daphne is a marketing major and Velma's roommate. She's dangerously curious about all the things her wealthy, controlling parents sheltered her from and finds that ghosthunting is very empowering. Shaggy is an undecided major with extreme anxiety, hence his emotional support dog, Scooby Doo. He only went to college cause his parents threatened to stop supporting him. He gets kidnapped by the "ghost" on campus while getting stoned one night, and Velma, Daphne, and Fred have to save him. He accidentally helps them defeat the ghost and though he hates it, he joins mystery incorporated cause he's never really had friends before. The show continues with them solving a new mystery every episode (like the cartoon), but a longer plotline will unravel throughout the season, coming to a head in the season finale as they find out that the dean is behind all the hauntings. The dean was trying to scare away students, because the school has lost funding and needs to suspend some of its programs.

Woah Scooby is in it and Velma acts like VELMA?!?!? DAMN BRO

I'm mainly annoyed that Fred doesn't have an ascot tie. He's like the only character known for that tie and he doesn't have it. Edit: Plus, it's a show titled after the Mystery Incorporated series in which he is wearing it so while some versions of him don't have it, this one should.

“Fred is supposed to be 16 going on 17 meanwhile his hairline is 16 going on 35” Funny but 100% accurate, the entire cast looks like they’re in senior year of college, not senior year of high school.

After HBO Velma, I see this as a refreshing thing

For a low budget series this actually doesn't look half bad. I've always wanted a horror live action Scooby movie or show.

The biggest question I have is why do you have to base everything in high school when the actors look mid 30s. Like at LEAST make it college or even better, just completely out of the education system, trying to figure out how to do what they love while also having to make money to support themselves. OR cast actual teens.

I hope they watch this video and take your criticisms well because I totally agree with you. Yes, it's supposed to be a teen drama, but it's Scooby-Doo for crying out loud, it need a little bit more character. Like you said, it's giving Riverdale or Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I have a very important question that hopefully gets answered: does Scooby even talk??

Those three people putting the ghost in their necklace we’re supposed to be a band called the HEX girls who are reoccurring protagonists in all kinds of Scooby-Doo projects. (My whole childhood was scooby doo)

Say what you want about this but when this showed up in my recommended and I watched it for the first time, I absolutely loved it. They clearly did the research on the actual canon of Scooby Doo and it’s a very dark swing. I mean for a fan film that I honestly hope continues, it’s good!

Fun Fact: In Golden Girls the actresses were actually much younger than the characters they portrayed... so it's like the total opposite of what this "teen" shows do. 😅

Interesting side fact: So Velma saying "ancient Latin" had me googling if there was a Latin that wasn't in fact ancient and it turns out that there is a New Latin that developed in the 16th century for academic and scientific purposes. Never really considered that before and wanted to share.

Scooby: Doesn’t talk Velma: Only one who hasn’t changed Shaggy: Zoinks Daphne: Spoiled rich girl lost all her character development which means she’s back to being the damsel instead of staying the black belt/expert pilot Freddie: Has basically become Archie from Riverdale

7:30 Did they just summon the Miner Forty-Niner?!

This is the worst “casting adults as high schoolers” case I’ve ever seen! Daphne straight looks like she is in her early 40s

I get the feeling that you didn’t know Coolsville is the actual name of Mystery Inc’s hometown in most Scooby Doo anthologies. There are a few versions where they are from Crystal Cove, but most versions are Coolsvile. So you can’t really blame the show for having a lame name for the town setting.

In almost every adaptation the gang is in high school. It would be strange to have them all meet eachother for the first time any differently. They nailed it.

Velma is anxious, nerdy, awkward and has zero sex appeal. That's a courageous casting choice and that's absolutely perfect. It's the Velma we needed.