Jim McKay | |
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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 .
Year | Show | Episode | Notes |
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2022 | Law & Order: Organized Crime | "Nemesis" | Season 2, episode 10 |
2021 | FBI: Most Wanted | "Dysfunction" | Season 2, episode 6 |
2020 | Better Call Saul | "Dedicado a Max" | Season 5, episode 5 |
Home Before Dark | "Search Party" | Season 1, episode 7 | |
"The Future Is Female" | Season 1, episode 8 | ||
2019 | Evil | "Vatican III" | Season 1, episode 7 |
For The People | "The Boxer" | Season 2, episode 7 | |
The Good Fight | "The One Where a Nazi Gets Punched" | Season 3, episode 8 | |
2018 | En el séptimo día | Producer, writer and director | |
Quantico | "Deep Cover" | Season 3, episode 8 | |
Better Call Saul | “Coushatta” | Season 4, episode 8 | |
Instinct | “Bad Actors” | Season 1, episode 9 | |
The Good Fight | “Day 436” | Season 2, episode 5 | |
“Day 415” | Season 2, episode 2 | ||
2017 | Quantico | "Resistance" | Season 2, episode 22 |
The Good Fight | “ Self Condemned” | Season 1, episode 9 | |
“ Social Media and Its Discontents” | Season 1, episode 6 | ||
Shades of Blue | “Chaos Is Come Again” | Season 2, episode 9 | |
“Unpaid Debts” | Season 2, episode 8 | ||
2016 | Power | “Trust Me” | Season 3, episode 8 |
BrainDead | “Goring Oxes: How You Can Survive the War on Government Through Five Easy Steps” | Season 1, episode 3 | |
“Playing Politics: Living Life in the Shadow of the Budget Showdown - A Critique” | Season 1, episode 2 | ||
2015 | Power | “Time's Up” | Season 2, episode 9 |
Mr. Robot | "eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv" | Season 1, episode 5 | |
"eps1.2_d3bug.mkv" | Season 1, episode 3 | ||
The Good Wife | “KSR” | Season 7, episode 10 | |
“Taxed” | Season 7, episode 4 | ||
“Innocents” | Season 7, episode 2 | ||
“Dark Money” | Season 6, episode 13 | ||
2014 | Bosch | "Chapter One: 'Tis the Season" (pilot) | Season 1, episode 1 |
Rectify | “Mazel Tov” | Season 2, episode 6 | |
The Good Wife | "Trust Issues" | Season 6, episode 2 | |
"The Last Call" | Season 5, episode 16 | ||
2013 | The Good Wife | “Red Team, Blue Team” | Season 4, episode 14 |
Rectify | “Plato’s Cave” | Season 1, episode 4 | |
Betrayal | “ ...That Is Not What Ships Are Built For” | Season 1, episode 4 | |
Zero Hour | "Sync” | Season1, episode 7 | |
The Americans | ”Safe House” | Season 1, episode 9 | |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | “Deadly Ambition” | Season 14, episode 15 | |
2012 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | “Friending Emily” | Season 14, episode 6 |
“Home Invasions” | Season 13, episode 14 | ||
Treme | “Saints“ | Season 3, episode 2 | |
Boss | “Louder Than Words” | Season 2, episode 1 | |
Blue Bloods | ”Reagan V. Reagan” | Season 2, episode 17 | |
2011 | Boss | ”Slip” | Season 1, episode 4 |
"Reflex" | Season 1, episode 2 | ||
The Good Wife | "The Death Zone" | Season 3, episode 2 | |
"Silver Bullet" | Season 2, episode 15 | ||
2010 | Treme | "Meet De Boys on the Battlefront" | Season 1, episode 2 |
Law & Order | "Immortal" | Season 20, episode 21 | |
"Four Cops Shot" | Season 20, episode 17 | ||
The Good Wife | "Bad Girls" | Season 2, episode 7 | |
In Treatment | ”Jesse: Week Seven” | Season 3, episode 27 | |
”Jesse: Week Six” | Season 3, episode 23 | ||
”Frances: Week Five” | Season 3, episode 18 | ||
”Jesse: Week Four” | Season 3, episode 15 | ||
”Adele: Week Three” | Season 3, episode 12 | ||
”Jesse: Week Two” | Season 3, episode 7 | ||
”Frances: Week Two” | Season 3, episode 6 | ||
2009 | The Good Wife | "Unprepared" | Season 1, episode 8 |
Law & Order | "Dignity" | Season 20, episode 5 | |
"Take-Out" | Season 19, episode 16 | ||
"Chattel" | Season 19, episode 8 | ||
Hung | "The Rita Flower or the Indelible Stench" | Season 1, episode 7 | |
In Treatment | "April: Week Seven" | Season 2, episode 32 | |
"April: Week Five" | Season 2, episode 22 | ||
"April: Week Four" | Season 2, episode 17 | ||
Big Love | "Empire" | Season 3, episode 2 | |
2008 | Law & Order | "Excalibur" | Season 18, episode 18 |
"Quit Claim" | Season 18, episode 7 | ||
Gossip Girl | "The Ex-Files" | Season 2, episode 4 | |
New Amsterdam | "Keep the Change" | Season 1, episode 5 | |
Breaking Bad | "Cancer Man" | Season 1, episode 4 | |
2007 | Big Love | "Take Me As I Am" | Season 2, episode 11 |
"Dating Game" | Season 2, episode 6 | ||
Life Support | Television movie, Writer | ||
Law & Order Criminal Intent | "Flipped" | Season 6, episode 14 | |
2006 | "Maltese Cross" | Season 6, episode 4 | |
The Wire | "Refugees" | Season 4, episode 4 | |
2005 | Angel Rodriguez | Television movie, Producer, Writer and Director | |
2004 | Everyday People | Television movie, Writer and Director | |
2000 | Our Song | Producer, Writer and Director | |
1996 | Girls Town | Writer and Director | |
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