Jim McKay (director)

For other people named Jim McKay, see Jim McKay (disambiguation).

Jim McKay
Born	United States
Occupation(s)	Television director, film producer, screenwriter, film director, television producer
Years active	1996–present

Jim McKay is an American film and television director, producer and writer.

He has directed episodes of The Wire , Treme , ^[1] Better Call Saul , Big Love , Criminal Intent and Mr. Robot as well as writing and directing Everyday People and Angel Rodriguez .

Career

For The Wire McKay directed the fourth episode of the fourth season, "Refugees". ^{[2] [3]} Show runner David Simon had seen McKay's HBO films and describes them as "masterful, ordinary-life movies" and thought that McKay would be perfect for the series based on their shared characteristics of accumulating drama in small moments. ^[4] McKay has worked with several cast members of the show on other projects including Reg E. Cathey and Jamie Hector on Everyday People and Wendell Pierce on Life Support .

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2018	En el séptimo día	Yes	Yes	Yes
2000	Our Song	Yes	Yes	Yes
1996	Girls Town	Yes	Yes	No

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2007	Life Support	No	Yes	No
2005	Angel Rodriguez	Yes	Yes	Yes
2004	Everyday People	Yes	Yes	No

TV series

Year	Title	Episode
2025	Smoke	"Mercy"
		"Manhood"
		"Size Matters"
2024	American Rust	"Confessions"
		"Faster Horses, Younger Women and More Money"
		"The Golden Goose"
		"Homecoming"
2022	Black Bird	"WhatsHerName"
	Law & Order: Organized Crime	"Nemesis"
2020	Better Call Saul	"Dedicado a Max"
	Home Before Dark	"Search Party"
		"The Future Is Female"
2020-2021	FBI: Most Wanted	"Dysfunction"
		"Execute"
		"Rampage"
		"Hairtrigger"
2019	Evil	"Vatican III"
	For The People	"The Boxer"
	The Good Fight	"The One Where a Nazi Gets Punched"
2018	Quantico	"Deep Cover"
	Better Call Saul	“Coushatta”
	Instinct	“Bad Actors”
	The Good Fight	“Day 436”
		“Day 415”
2017	Quantico	"Resistance"
	The Good Fight	"Self Condemned"
		"Social Media and Its Discontents"
	Shades of Blue	“Chaos Is Come Again”
		“Unpaid Debts”
2016	Power	“Trust Me”
	BrainDead	“Goring Oxes: How You Can Survive the War on Government Through Five Easy Steps”
		“Playing Politics: Living Life in the Shadow of the Budget Showdown - A Critique”
2015	Power	“Time's Up”
	Mr. Robot	"eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv"
		"eps1.2_d3bug.mkv"
	The Good Wife	“KSR”
		“Taxed”
		“Innocents”
		“Dark Money”
2014	Bosch	"Chapter One: 'Tis the Season"
	Rectify	“Mazel Tov”
	The Good Wife	"Trust Issues"
		"The Last Call"
2013	The Good Wife	“Red Team, Blue Team”
	Rectify	“Plato’s Cave”
	Betrayal	“ ...That Is Not What Ships Are Built For”
	Zero Hour	"Sync”
	The Americans	”Safe House”
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	“Deadly Ambition”
2012	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	“Friending Emily”
		“Home Invasions”
	Treme	“Saints“
	Boss	“Louder Than Words”
	Blue Bloods	”Reagan V. Reagan”
2011	Boss	”Slip”
		"Reflex"
	The Good Wife	"The Death Zone"
		"Silver Bullet"
2010	Treme	"Meet De Boys on the Battlefront"
	Law & Order	"Immortal"
		"Four Cops Shot"
	The Good Wife	"Bad Girls"
	In Treatment	”Jesse: Week Seven”
		”Jesse: Week Six”
		”Frances: Week Five”
		”Jesse: Week Four”
		”Adele: Week Three”
		”Jesse: Week Two”
		”Frances: Week Two”
2009	The Good Wife	"Unprepared"
	Law & Order	"Dignity"
		"Take-Out"
		"Chattel"
	Hung	"The Rita Flower or the Indelible Stench"
	In Treatment	"April: Week Seven"
		"April: Week Five"
		"April: Week Four"
	Big Love	"Empire"
2008	Law & Order	"Excalibur"
		"Quit Claim"
	Gossip Girl	"The Ex-Files"
	New Amsterdam	"Keep the Change"
	Breaking Bad	"Cancer Man"
2007	Big Love	"Take Me As I Am"
		"Dating Game"
	Law & Order Criminal Intent	"Flipped"
2006		"Maltese Cross"
	The Wire	"Refugees"

References

1. HBO. "Treme episode "Meet De Boys on the Battleforont" synopsis". Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
2. Dennis Lehane, Ed Burns (October 31, 2004). "Refugees". The Wire. Season 4. Episode 04. HBO.
3. "Episode guide – episode 41 Refugees". HBO. 2006. Archived from the original on July 5, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2006.
4. Jim King (2003). "3rd Exclusive David Simon interview". The Wire at AOL. Retrieved November 5, 2007. Page 5

External links

• Jim McKay at IMDb