Star Wars’ Skeleton Crew, Creature Commandos and more new TV this week
Welcome to December, when it’s the most wonderful time of the year: dark enough to stay inside and watch TV for a longer evening. (I am Just kidding (I’m not like that, I love TV, but I also love the holidays!) If you’re craving some good animated offerings at the start of the season and you’re done with the more standard seasonal fare, check out Jentry Chau vs. the underworld or Creature commands. While they’re certainly not about Christmas, they’re certainly about the heartwarming power of (more or less) working together.
And they are not the only ones! Here are this week’s best new TV premieres and finales.
Jentry Chau vs. the underworld
Genre: Animated supernatural action
Release date: December 5, with all episodes
Showrunner/creator: Echo Wu
Form: Ali Wong, Bowen Yang, Lori Tan Chinn and more
Jentry Chau (Ali Wong) is just trying to live a normal high school life, and these damn supernatural powers – not to mention the literal demons that come with them – are making it difficult. Like Buffy before, Jentry Chau will show how much life in high school can really be hell (and hopefully a lot of fun).
Genre: The Goonies like Star Wars
Release date: December 3
Showrunners/creators: Jon Watts and Chris Ford
Form: Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Jude Law, Ryan Kiera Armstrong and more
Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) is like any Star Wars fan: he dreams of a glorious life as a Jedi Knight and adventures that pull him out of the small town life he’s always known. But Wim is also a child in the Star Wars universe, so in its version of it – on a remote planet, post-Return of the Jedi – his life under Republic rule is interrupted when he and his friends (or rather, his friend and two people he has some sort of feud with) get lost in the galaxy.
Genre: Animated comic book
Release date: December 5, with two episodes
Showrunner/creator: Dean Lorey
Form: Steve Agee, Maria Bakalova, Anya Chalotra and more
Amanda Waller may be a force of nature within the DCU, but she runs into a lot of red tape. After the events of Peacemakerit is no longer able to endanger human lives for its clandestine operations. So instead of Team Peacemaker or Suicide Squad, she still has… Rick Flag Sr.’s Creature Commandos. What can go wrong?
Genre: Comedy-drama
Release date: December 6, with all episodes
Showrunners/creators: Brian Donovan and Ed Herro
Form: Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos, Guillaume Cyr and more
Ruth Landry (Margo Martindale) is a maple syrup farmer driven to a life of crime thanks to bureaucratic frustrations. The crime? Something sweeter than you ever imagined: teaming up with a Boston mobster and a French-Canadian security guard for a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec’s surplus maple syrup. The best part? These six episodes are based on a true story (although, as the trailer notes, “This is definitely not the true story.”)
Superman and Lois series finale
Genre: Arrowverse Superman family drama
Release date: December 2
Showrunner/creator: Todd Helbing
Form: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass and more
Superman finally hangs up the cape – a joke (probably). But Superman and Lois is coming to an end, marking the end of the family drama and what’s left on The CW of the Arrowverse. So what will Superman’s final showdown be, and where does that leave Lois, Clark and the kids?