Star Wars’ Skeleton Crew, Creature Commandos and more new TV series this week

Welcome to December, the most wonderful time of the year: dark enough to stay inside for a long evening and watch TV. (I am jokingly – I’m not like that, I love TV, but I also love Christmas time!) If you’re in the mood for some good animation at the start of the season and are done with the standard fare of the season, check out both Jentry Chau versus the underworld or Creature Commands. While it’s definitely not about Christmas, it’s certainly about the heartwarming power of collaboration (more or less).

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

Jentry Chau versus the underworld

Genre: Animated supernatural action
Release date: December 5th, with all consequences
Showrunner/Creator: Echo Wu
Pour: Ali Wong, Bowen Yang, Lori Tan Chinn and more

Jentry Chau (Ali Wong) is just trying to cope with normal high school life, and those damn supernatural powers — not to mention the literal demons they bring with them — make it difficult. How Buffy before that, Jentry Chau will show how high school life can truly be hell (and hopefully a lot of fun).

Genre: The Goonies as Star Wars
Release date: December 3rd
Showrunner/Maker: Jon Watts and Chris Ford
Pour: Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Jude Law, Ryan Kiera Armstrong and more

Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) is like any Star Wars fan: He dreams of a life of glory as a Jedi Knight and adventures that will take him away from the small-town life he’s always known. But Wim is also a child In the Star Wars universe, i.e. 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 more accurately, his friend and two people he’s somehow messed with) get lost in the galaxy.

Genre: Animated comic book
Release date: December 5th, with two episodes
Showrunner/Creator: Dean Lorey
Pour: Steve Agee, Maria Bakalova, Anya Chalotra and more

Amanda Waller may be a force of nature in the DCU, but she has a lot of bureaucracy to contend with. After the events of PeacemakerShe is no longer in a position to put people’s lives at risk for her secret operations. So instead of Team Peacemaker or Suicide Squad, you’re left with…Rick Flag Sr.’s Creature Commandos. What could go wrong?

Genre: comedy drama
Release date: December 6th, with all consequences
Showrunner/Maker: Brian Donovan and Ed Herro
Pour: Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos, Guillaume Cyr and more

Ruth Landry (Margo Martindale) is a maple syrup farmer who is driven into a life of crime due to bureaucratic frustrations. The crime? Something sweeter than you could have ever imagined: teaming up with a Boston gangster and a French-Canadian security guard to pull off a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus. The best part? These six episodes are based on a true story (although, as the trailer states, “This is absolutely not the true story.”)

Superman & Lois Series finale

Genre: Arrowverse Superman family drama
Release date: Dec 2nd
Showrunner/Creator: Todd Helbing
Pour: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass and more

Superman finally hangs up the cape – (probably) just kidding. But Superman & Lois comes 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 will that leave Lois, Clark and the children?