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Jim McKay (director)

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Jim McKay
Born
Occupation(s)Television director, film producer, screenwriter, film director, television producer
Years active1996–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

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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

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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
2022 Law & Order: Organized Crime "Nemesis"
2021 FBI: Most Wanted "Dysfunction"
2020 Better Call Saul "Dedicado a Max"
Home Before Dark "Search Party"
"The Future Is Female"
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

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  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
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