Jim McKay | |
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Born | |
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 .
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 .
Film
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
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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 |
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2007 | Life Support | No | Yes | No |
2005 | Angel Rodriguez | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2004 | Everyday People | Yes | Yes | No |
TV series
Year | Title | Episode |
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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" |