SummaryDEA 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).
Created By:Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin, Andrew Orci, Roberto Orci
❮ Matador
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Jul 15, 2014
Metascore
Generally Favorable
62
User score
Mixed or Average
6.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
62
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Jul 14, 2014
75
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.
Jul 15, 2014
70
Glitzy, spoofy, and bristling with attitude, Matador is the modern equivalent of I Spy, the classic '60s series about a pro tennis player/secret agent, starring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby.
Jul 14, 2014
60
Matador is definitely B-level--serviceable dialogue, not-quite-cartoonish characters, gimmicky editing--but it’s not grindhouse.
Jul 9, 2014
50
Matador is fairly jaunty and breezy in the only episode sent for review. But it also throws in some serious-minded violence as part of the mix.
Jul 14, 2014
30
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.
User score
Mixed or Average
6.0
54% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
23% Mixed
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23% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Aug 13, 2014
8
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 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.
