Spoiler alert.

Creature Commandos feels like an admission that we are never getting another Suicide Squad movie. I know this in part because the DCU slate goes until twenty twenty-TBA, and it’s nowhere on the list. I’m not surprised, nor am I disappointed. The Suicide Squad was fantastic, let’s leave those good memories and focus on bringing everything else into the new world.

The DCU is an extension of the DCEU, kinda, sorta. It allows James Gunn to keep what he wants, throw away what he doesn’t, and basically do whatever the hell he wants. It’s going to take a few years to get off the ground and that’s assuming it actually does. We’ll have to wait until Superman in 2025 to see how this latest attempt at a reboot goes.

But I’m here to talk about Creature Commandos, the first in the DCU. Creature Commandos is an interesting concept for the debut of the DCU and is why I love James Gunn. The guy likes to use obscure characters for his shows/movies. Viola Davis is once again back as Amanda Waller, and since it’s now illegal for her to use human prisoners for her Suicide Squad she has turned to a prison of villains who aren’t human at all. Loopholes!

Waller puts together a team including Rick Flag Sr. played by my personal favorite Frank Grillo as the lead. We also get The Bride (Indira Varma), G.I. Robot (Sean Gunn), Doctor Phosphorus (Alan Tudyk), and Nina Mazursky (Zoë Chao). The Weasel is back as well, also played by Tudyk. Alan additionally plays Clayface in some future episode, but a different Clayface than the one he played in Harley Quinn.

The task force is sent to the country of Pokolistan, where Princess Ilana Rostovic (Maria Bakalova) is under threat from Amazonian sorceress Circe (Anya Chalotra). But things are never as they seem, and the crew finds out there’s something much bigger afoot in the lands of wherever the hell Pokolistan is. Probably west of Russia. What will that shocker be? You’ll have to tune in to find out.

After four of seven episodes I can say for certain that this show is fantastic. Every episode so far has been dedicated to talking about the backstory of one or two characters. We see the Bride’s tragic origin of being created to be the bride (go figure) for Frankenstein’s monster, and the ensuing decade she has spent trying to get away from him. G.I. Robot gets a backstory to remind us once again that James Gunn hates fascists and white supremacists and will go out of his way to have them brutally murdered on screen.

And then there’s Weasel, who so far has the saddest backstory of them all. John Economos (Steve Aigee) is back in that episode though so it’s not all bad.