Mindy Kaling's Scooby Doo origin series, “Velma,” canceled at Max

The show, which followed the beloved but under-appreciated teen detective, ran for two seasons.

Mindy Kaling's Velma has solved its last case.

The adult animated Scooby Doo origin series has been canceled by Max, Entertainment Weekly confirmed Wednesday.

"Over the past two seasons, Mindy and Charlie [Grandy] have created an incredibly fun and fresh world within the iconic whodunit franchise," a spokesperson for Max said in a statement. "While we won't be moving forward with another season of the series, we thank them for their compelling coming-of-age storytelling, unrivaled clues, and hilarious hijinks."

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Related: Mindy Kaling says Into the Spider-Verse inspired her to make Velma character Indian

Velma season 2 premiered with 10 new episodes on April 25. Its Halloween special, which dropped on Oct. 3, and will now serve as the series finale.

Created by Grandy and starring Kaling as the under-appreciated teen detective Velma Dinkley, the show also starred Constance Wu, Sam Richardson, and Glenn Howerton.

"We knew it would be fun for me to play Velma, but we had a conversation where Velma is white, and we have this new choice to do the show, and if I'm voicing her, should she be white or should she not?" Kaling told EW in 2022. "We were really inspired by Into the Spider-Verse — it's animation, we can do anything. The essence of Velma is not necessarily tied to her whiteness. And I identify so much as her character, and I think so many people do, so it's like, yeah, let's make her Indian in this series."

Once she and Grandy saw what a South Asian animated Velma looked like, they knew they'd made the right decision. "It felt like it really kept the heart of the show," Kaling said.

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Despite never having done animation before, Kaling was excited to bring a new layer of Velma's story to life in the series. "I'm obviously a big fan of Scooby Doo, was raised watching almost every iteration of it, and I really loved the character of Velma," she told EW. "I said to Charlie, 'Would you have any interest in doing something that told her origin story?'"

Grandy "instantly" said yes because he'd always wondered how the Scooby Doo gang became friends. "As a fan, the one question I always had was, how did these four people come together? These four very different people," Grandy told EW. "And then also every week, they solve a spooky mystery; every week, they almost die. It's like, why? What happened to them in high school that was so bad that this stuff rolls off their chest? How are they able to keep going back? Clearly they've gone through worse stuff."

TVLine.com first reported the news of the show's cancelation.

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