Creature Commandos

Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) has received intel that Circe - a sorceress from Wonder Woman's home island of Themyscira - has traveled to Pokolistan to assassinate Princess Ilana.  Waller decided to dispatch General Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) with a band of 'creatures' to protect the princess.  Why creatures?  Congress has shutdown the Suicide Squad program, forbidding Waller from sending humans on such high casualty missions.  The creatures - none of whom are quite human - are a work around.  There are 5 creatures:

The Bride (Indira Varma) is the Bride of Frankenstein.  She has 'lived' for 200 years and spent much of her time fleeing the monster, Eric Frankenstein (David Harbour).  She is strong, tough, and anti-social.  She is also the leader of the creatures when Flag is absent.

G. I. Robot (Sean Gunn) is, as the name states, a robot.  He was deployed during World War II where he killed Nazis.  He is obsessed with killing Nazis.  His arms conceal machineguns with which he kills those his teammates identify as Nazis.

Weasel (Sean Gunn) is a human-sized weasel-like creature.  He's basically an animal.

Doctor Phosphorus (Alan Tudyk) is a walking radioactive man whose skeleton is always visible through his translucent body.  He can burn through anything with his touch, often graphically killing opponents by melting their faces.  Yikes.

Nina (Zoe Chao) is a female creature from the black lagoon.  She had a rare lung defect that her scientist father 'fixed' by screwing with her DNA.  Now she's aquatic with green skin and gills.

Most episodes have the story of the present as well as an origin story for one of the creatures.  Though all of them are in prison and thus available for Waller to dispatch, some of the origin stories indicate that they were wrongly incarcerated.

The dull-witted and lovestruck Frankenstein was frequently funny, but often quite dark.  He was only too happy to murder anyone in his way.  There is a montage of the Bride and Frankenstein encountering each other throughout the years, her always running and him always chasing.  The guy won't take a hint after 2 centuries.

Overall, it is entertaining.  Not exactly superhero stuff and quite similar to the Suicide Squads and Peacemaker.

Aeon Flux

In a futuristic state, a woman slaughters soldiers with her automatic weapons.  Among the dead are those clearly suffering from some disease.  While the woman pauses to peruse a map and glance at a picture of her target, a scientist collects a strange bug that is presumed to be the source of the disease.  The soldiers having found her, the woman - now clearly an assassin on a mission - sprints through the building, leaving a stream of bodies in her wake.  She is unstoppable.  She arrives on a narrow ledge just outside the target's apartment.  However, when she glances within, she sees that the target is already dead though the scientist is present and undisturbed by the corpse.  What exactly the assassin planned next is unknown as she falls to her death.  While the scientist discovers a cure to the disease and receives great acclaim, the assassin appears in the afterlife to have her feet licked by some bizarre being; in her off time, she was a model for foot fetish magazines.

Thus ended the 12-minute pilot for Aeon Flux.  The entire story was told without dialogue, and the news reports were just gibberish that was self-explanatory based on the visuals.  The popularity of the show on MTV's Liquid Television led to a series.  Though creator Peter Chung had viewed the assassin's story as complete, the audience wanted more of her.  Though the name of the series was not meant to be her name, it became so.  Thus, Aeon Flux returned in 5 more adventures (5 minutes each), again without dialogue, where she died in every story.  Both the assassin - Aeon - and the scientist - Trevor - appear.  Sometimes they appear to be allies, but mostly they are rivals.  Still hugely popular, more and bigger episodes are ordered.

The third - and final - season had 10 episodes that were half an hour each.  Rather than a brief snippet of action concluding with Aeon's death, there are full stories where she mostly survives.  Aeon (voiced by Denise Poirier) and Trevor Goodchild (John Rafter Lee) switch between lovers and rivals.  He leads the totalitarian state of Bregna while she is a spy from the vaguely-defined state of Monica.  In one episode, we find that Trevor has mastered cloning and has a harem of Aeons; perhaps this explains her multiple deaths.  He is always tinkering with some new crazy technology or obsessed with some otherworldly being.  Regarding otherworldly, the setting does not appear to be Earth, even in some distant future.

Throughout the series, the setting is dystopian.  Mostly, Trevor seeks to build that which generally proves to be bad while Aeon strives to destroy it.  Overall, a terrific series.