Jim McKay (director)

American film 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

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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

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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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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

## External links

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* Jim McKay at IMDb

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Films directed by Jim McKay

* Girls Town (1996)
* Our Song (2000)
* Everyday People (2004)
* Angel Rodriguez (2005)
* En el séptimo día (2017)

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