Jim McKay is an American film and television director, producer and writer.
He has directed episodes of The Wire, Treme, 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". 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. 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 2000 Our Song 1996 Girls Town
TV movies Year Title Director Writer Producer 2007 Life Support 2005 Angel Rodriguez 2004 Everyday People
TV series Year Title Episode2025Smoke"Mercy""Manhood""Size Matters"2024American Rust"Confessions""Faster Horses, Younger Women and More Money""The Golden Goose""Homecoming"2022Black Bird"WhatsHerName"Law & Order: Organized Crime"Nemesis"2020Better Call Saul"Dedicado a Max"Home Before Dark"Search Party""The Future Is Female"2020-2021FBI: Most Wanted"Dysfunction""Execute""Rampage""Hairtrigger"2019Evil"Vatican III"For The People"The Boxer"The Good Fight"The One Where a Nazi Gets Punched"2018Quantico"Deep Cover"Better Call Saul "Coushatta" Instinct"Bad Actors"The Good Fight"Day 436""Day 415"2017Quantico"Resistance"The Good Fight"Self Condemned""Social Media and Its Discontents"Shades of Blue"Chaos Is Come Again""Unpaid Debts" 2016Power"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"2015Power"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"2013The 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"2012Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"Friending Emily""Home Invasions"Treme"Saints" Boss"Louder Than Words"Blue Bloods"Reagan V. Reagan"2011Boss"Slip""Reflex"The Good Wife"The Death Zone""Silver Bullet"2010Treme"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"2009The 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"2008Law & Order"Excalibur""Quit Claim"Gossip Girl"The Ex Files"New Amsterdam"Keep the Change"Breaking Bad"Cancer Man"2007Big Love"Take Me As I Am""Dating Game"Law & Order Criminal Intent"Flipped"2006"Maltese Cross"The Wire"Refugees"
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