Matador: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

El Rey Network | El Rey | Season Premiere Date: July 15, 2014

Starring: Tanc Sade, Nicky Whelan, Alfred Molina

Summary: DEA agent Tony "Matador" Bravo (Gabriel Luna) is recruited by the CIA and goes undercover as a professional soccer player with the L.A. Riot soccer team owned by billionaire Andres Galan (Alfred Molina).

Creator: Roberto Orci and Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E13. Mala Sangre
Air Date: October 7, 2014
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S1:E12. Dead Dreaming in Bagan
Air Date: September 30, 2014
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S1:E11. Riot 'Til I Die'
Air Date: September 23, 2014

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David Wiegand

Jul 14, 2014

The show is fast-paced and sexy, but perhaps its secret weapon is the authenticity of Tony's character as a young Latino resident of the working class, largely Mexican American Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Jul 15, 2014

The flavor is high-style retro-modern, high-style B-picture. Read full review

Rob Owen

Jul 14, 2014

A fun, entertaining action show. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

Jul 16, 2014

The show is a compendium of high-octane clichés, just clever enough that you can't call it stupid and just stupid enough that you can't call it clever.... There are three saving graces. One is the premise, which is enjoyably ludicrous.... The second saving grace is the multicultural cast and international flavor.... The third saving grace, certainly not to be underestimated, is Luna, who's got a marvelous Everyman quality. Read full review

Mike Hale

Jul 14, 2014

Matador is definitely B-level--serviceable dialogue, not-quite-cartoonish characters, gimmicky editing--but it’s not grindhouse. Read full review

Molly Eichel

Jul 15, 2014

Matador has the potential to be really fun, once the place-setting of the first episode is out of the way. But the show won’t unlock that potential unless it fully buys into how ridiculous it can truly be. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jul 14, 2014

The show plays like a slapdash effort, conceived less by creative spark than as the product of focus-group testing, with a dash of nostalgia thrown in. Read full review

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FleshWorld

Aug 13, 2014

I think the critics got it right here. Yes it comes off as a B-movie type of show but it absolutely has so much joy and revelry in the acting & the directing & the writing that you just can't help but have fun with the show. Alfred Molina is great and that the lead actor who plays bravo isI think the critics got it right here. Yes it comes off as a B-movie type of show but it absolutely has so much joy and revelry in the acting & the directing & the writing that you just can't help but have fun with the show. Alfred Molina is great and that the lead actor who plays bravo is extremely talented. Even the mail CIA handler is perversely funny. This is the second show on the El Rey network that I have watched after from dusk till Dawn and I'm really loving it. I'm so glad I found this channel.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 15, 2014
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  S1:E13. Mala Sangre
  Air Date: October 7, 2014
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  S1:E12. Dead Dreaming in Bagan
  Air Date: September 30, 2014
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  S1:E11. Riot 'Til I Die'
  Air Date: September 23, 2014
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  S1:E10. Nigh of the Whale
  Air Date: September 16, 2014
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  S1:E9. Wells Fargo Presents: The Anguise of Rosarito
  Air Date: September 9, 2014
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  S1:E8. Episode 8 - Everything Old Is New Again HD
  Air Date: September 2, 2014
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  S1:E7. Mano Mano
  Air Date: September 5, 2014
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  S1:E6. Episode 6 - Misanthropology
  Air Date: August 19, 2014
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  S1:E5. Enter the Worm
  Air Date: August 12, 2014
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  S1:E4. Code Red Card
  Air Date: August 5, 2014
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  S1:E3. Idol Worship
  Air Date: July 29, 2014
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  S1:E2. The Naked and the Dead
  Air Date: July 22, 2014
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  S1:E1. Quid Go Pro
  Air Date: July 15, 2014