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’m kidding — like, I’m not, I love TV, but I also love the holiday season!) If the start of the season is making you itch for a good animated offering and you’re done with some of the more standard seasonal fare, check out either Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld or Creature Commandos. While they are definitely not about Christmas, they are certainly about the heartwarming power of working together (more or less).

And they’re not alone! Here are the best new TV premieres and finales this week.

Genre: Animated supernatural action
Release date: Dec. 5, with all episodes
Showrunner/creator: Echo Wu
Cast: Ali Wong, Bowen Yang, Lori Tan Chinn, and more

Jentry Chau (Ali Wong) is just trying to get by with a regular high school life, and these goddamn supernatural powers — not to mention the literal demons that come with them — are making it difficult. Like Buffy before it, Jentry Chau will demonstrate how much life in high school can really be hell (and, hopefully, a whole lot of fun).

Genre: The Goonies as Star Wars
Release date: Dec. 3
Showrunners/creators: Jon Watts and Chris Ford
Cast: Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Jude Law, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, and more

Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) is like any Star Wars fan: Dreaming of a life of glory as a Jedi Knight, and adventures that pull him out of the small-town life he’s always known. But Wim is also a kid in the Star Wars universe, so in his version of this — on a remote planet, post-Return of the Jedi — his life under Republic rule is interrupted when he and his friends (or more accurately: his friend and two people he’s sort of feuding with) get lost in the galaxy.

Genre: Animated comic book
Release date: Dec. 5, with two episodes
Showrunner/creator: Dean Lorey
Cast: Steve Agee, Maria Bakalova, Anya Chalotra, and more

Amanda Waller may be a force of nature in the DCU, but she is running up against a lot of red tape. After the events of Peacemaker, she’s no longer able to put human lives in jeopardy for her clandestine operations. So, in lieu of Team Peacemaker or Suicide Squad, she’s left with… Rick Flag Sr.’s Creature Commandos. What could go wrong?

Genre: Comedy drama
Release date: Dec. 6, with all episodes
Showrunners/creators: Brian Donovan and Ed Herro
Cast: Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos, Guillaume Cyr, and more

Ruth Landry (Margo Martindale) is a maple syrup farmer who’s being driven to a life of crime thanks to bureaucratic frustrations. The crime? Something sweeter than you could’ve possibly imagined: pairing up with a Bostonian mobster and French Canadian security guard for a multi-million-dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus. The best part? These six episodes are based on a true story (though, as the trailer specifies: “This is absolutely not the true story.”)

Genre: Arrowverse Superman family drama
Release date: Dec. 2
Showrunner/creator: Todd Helbing
Cast: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, and more

Superman is finally hanging up the cape — just kidding (probably). But Superman & Lois is coming to a close, marking the end of the family drama and whatever remained on The CW of the Arrowverse. So what will Superman’s final showdown be, and where will that leave Lois, Clark, and the kids?