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Preacher
El Valero
Directed by
Kate Dennis
TV-MA
S1 • E8
Jul 17, 2016
42m
7.8
7.7
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Jesse protects his church in a vicious gun battle against Quincannon and the Meat Men; Tulip hopes to save a friend.
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Cast of El Valero
Dominic Cooper
Jesse Custer
Ruth Negga
Tulip O'Hare
Joseph Gilgun
Cassidy
Anatol Yusef
DeBlanc
Tom Brooke
Fiore
Lucy Griffiths
Emily Woodrow
Ian Colletti
Eugene 'Arseface' Root
W. Earl Brown
Hugo Root
Derek Wilson
Donnie Schenck
Graham McTavish
Saint of Killers
Jane Wilson
Crazed Supporter / Baby
Jackie Earle Haley
Odin Quincannon
Nancy Jeris
Vail Grandma
Ava Wagenman
Vail Granddaughter
Kate Dennis
Director
Olivia Dufault
Writer
John Grillo
Director Of Photography
Daniel Gabbe
Editor
Preacher - S1 • E8 Ratings & Reviews
CBR
Dan Caffrey
But "Preacher" is no ordinary Western, and "El Valero" becomes just as much about Jesse's guilt as him shooting off his attackers' penises.
TV Equals
Jordan Alsaqa
"El Valero" proved to be another great entry for the series, showing that it's finally time for Jesse to pay for his overconfidence and Genesis-fueled meddling.
SFX Magazine
Anthony John Agnello
Outside of Eugene and Quincannon's scene-stealing dynamism, not a whole lot changes in El Valero. It repeatedly raises questions that seem to have no answer at all.
IGN Movies
Matt Fowler
The other two leads of the series took an extreme backseat this week as Jesse's comeuppance took center stage, giving us a great hook for the next episode while also fleshing out Odin's backstory.
HitFix
Alan Sepinwall
"El Valero" did a strong job not only showing Jesse reach that breaking point but showing the angels and even Odin doing the same.
Observer
Sean T. Collins
Nearly everything that happens hints at greatness, or at least damn goodness, that goes frustratingly unrealized.
Nerdist
Joseph McCabe
Any lingering fears I had that Preacher was still somehow spinning its wheels have been all but obliterated by "El Valero."
New York Magazine/Vulture
Scott Meslow
Despite his flirtation with the dark side in last week's episode, Jesse is never going to be straight-up evil... Preacher muddies the lines between our heroes and our villains - in this case, by making the latter a little more complicated.
indieWire
Jeff Stone
Fortunately this episode answers questions and doesn't raise new ones, so it's ahead of the game.
TV Guide
Cory Barker
"El Valero" was another strong, occasionally fun episode of the show, but also one interested in how people respond to where blind-ish faith has taken them.
Entertainment Weekly
Sara Netzley
It's hard to pick the best part of the episode, so let's call it a three-way tie between the clever action sequences, the magnificent comedic score, and Jackie Earle Haley's sly, subtle acting choices.
Screen Rant
Kevin Yeoman
"El Valero" winds up being a good hour of TV in spite of some of its more obvious shortcomings. The episode demonstrates just how funny Preacher is, and how an injection of broad humor can make a standoff in the Texas heat feel like the place to be.
Guardian
Eric Thurm
We don't get the big confrontation we were promised at the end of last week's episode, but that's OK, because Eugene is back! (Sort of.)
AV Club
Zack Handlen
I love it when a show outsmarts me. As a viewer and a critic, I love it when my assumptions get turned on their ear, and that happens several times over the course of "El Valero."
The Young Folks
Aaron Neuwirth
I am aware Dominic Cooper has been praised by some and tolerated by others, but "El Valero" really goes out of its way to show all the different shades Cooper brings to the character of Jesse Custer
The Playlist
Kimber Myers
Feels mostly like a place-setting episode for both Jesse's story and his friends' plotline for the two hours remaining this season.
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