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The Best Episodes Directed By Michael Pressman

Every TV Episode Directed by Michael Pressman Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Michael Pressman Ratings Summary

"To Serve with Love" is the best rated episode directed by Michael Pressman. It scored 9.5/10 based on 4 votes. It was written by Adam Belanoff. It aired on 7/25/2011 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Saving Face".

  • To Serve with Love
    9.5/104 votes

    #1 - To Serve with Love

    Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 7/25/2011

    Flynn and Provenza get into the usual trouble moonlighting as process servers when a man dies shortly after they serve him.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Adam Belanoff

  • Saving Face
    9.2/106 votes

    #2 - Saving Face

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/2/2007

    At a retired cop’s funeral, Lt Provenza and Lt. Flynn discover something quite unexpected along with the corpse.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Adam Belanoff

  • I Will Come to Save You
    9.0/102 votes

    #3 - I Will Come to Save You

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 5/26/2021

    Carol receives a second chance at life when a new heart becomes available. Ethan and Dean find themselves in hot water with an old patient. Will faces the consequences of the stolen trial medication.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Diane Frolov

  • Never Going Back to Normal
    8.7/103 votes

    #4 - Never Going Back to Normal

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2019

    Will and Natalie battle for their lives after a car accident. An investigation is launched following the suspicious death of Cornelius Rhodes. Maggie receives life-changing news. Dr. Charles cuts his honeymoon short to tend to a patient.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Diane Frolov

  • Mood
    8.7/103 votes

    #5 - Mood

    Season 19 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2017

    The bizarre details of a woman's rape put the SVU at odds when Rollins and Carisi think her story is fabricated. Meanwhile, Benson goes on the offensive when her personal life is scrutinized.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Allison Intrieri

  • Lying Doesn't Protect You From the Truth
    8.5/102 votes

    #6 - Lying Doesn't Protect You From the Truth

    Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/18/2022

    Dylan and Ethan treat a patient shot during a drug raid. Charles and Vanessa work together to properly diagnose a motivational speaker. Will and Hannah must turn to Crockett for help with a patient who's pregnant.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Jeff Drayer

  • I Told Myself That I Was Done with You
    8.5/102 votes

    #7 - I Told Myself That I Was Done with You

    Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 2/28/2024

    Maggie empathizes with a patient whose mother is afraid to consent to her son's risky surgery. Ripley treats someone from his past. Ahmad questions her instincts.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Gabriel L. Feinberg

  • Making a Rapist
    8.5/104 votes

    #8 - Making a Rapist

    Season 18 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2016

    Newly tested DNA evidence leads to the exoneration of a prisoner who served 16 years for a rape conviction. However, he's investigated again one day later in the wake of a shocking new crime.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Kevin Fox

  • A Better Person
    8.2/105 votes

    #9 - A Better Person

    Season 24 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2022

    The SVU hunts for a violent suspect who killed a detective's child. Rollins ponders a potential opportunity.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Brianna Yellen

  • Chinatown
    8.0/105 votes

    #10 - Chinatown

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/2010

    After meeting with federal agents in a dark edge of Chinatown, Jamie witnesses a crime in progress and his suspect is killed while in pursuit. Now, Danny must solve the case in order for Jamie to avoid an Internal Affairs investigation.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Diana Son

  • Mother's Day
    8.0/103 votes

    #11 - Mother's Day

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/2012

    Frank must race to stop a biological weapon attack on New York City, while keeping it a secret from his family during their most sentimental holiday, Mother’s Day. Meanwhile, a long-standing conflict between Danny and Jamie comes to a head.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Brian Burns

  • Domestic Disturbance
    8.0/104 votes

    #12 - Domestic Disturbance

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2012

    A woman recants a domestic-abuse claim, but Danny and Jackie continue to investigate the situation. Soon they uncover the woman's secret affair with a powerful politician who's friends with Frank. Meanwhile, Linda returns to the workforce, causing chaos at home.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Ian Biederman

  • Fathers and Sons
    8.0/104 votes

    #13 - Fathers and Sons

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/4/2013

    When two motorists driving gas-guzzling cars die at the hands of a sniper, Danny and Kate are put on the case of what the city believes is the work of a radical environmental serial killer. Meanwhile, a bicycle accident sends Danny’s son Sean to the hospital with a life-threatening injury.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Brian Burns

  • Forty-One Witnesses
    8.0/103 votes

    #14 - Forty-One Witnesses

    Season 17 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/2016

    A woman is followed home and raped outside her building, where several neighbors witness the crime but fail to call for help.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Robert Brooks Cohen

  • Flight Risk
    8.0/103 votes

    #15 - Flight Risk

    Season 19 Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/2018

    When an airline pilot accuses her captain of sexual assault, Barba convenes a Grand Jury to determine their employer's complicity in the crime. Meanwhile, Fin takes steps to ensure Benson is protected at work.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Julie Martin

  • Exchange
    8.0/101 votes

    #16 - Exchange

    Season 20 Episode 21 - Aired 4/25/2019

    Benson helps a teenaged exchange student after she's assaulted by a cab driver.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Michael S. Chernuchin

  • They Had to Tweeze That out of My Kidney
    7.8/105 votes

    #17 - They Had to Tweeze That out of My Kidney

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2009

    As she copes with mounting pressure, Patty begins to unravel Walter Kendrick's energy scheme. Meanwhile, Arthur Frobisher's past will come back to haunt him.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Aaron Zelman

  • Little Fish
    7.8/105 votes

    #18 - Little Fish

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/2011

    A high-end escort's body is found in the river; Frank vows to get justice in a 25-year-old case.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

  • Glue
    7.7/107 votes

    #19 - Glue

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 8/24/2009

    Nancy, Andy and Cesar team up to look for Esteban when he goes missing. In the meantime, Dean and Doug start their scheme of revenge against Celia, while Silas and Shane develop a need to protect their new stepsister.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Ron Fitzgerald

  • Ghosts in the Attic
    7.7/103 votes

    #20 - Ghosts in the Attic

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2019

    Halstead hides the theft of his gun from a suspicious Manning. Tensions are still high between Connor and Bekker, who take a risk operating on an HIV-positive patient. Hank breaks down when he sees a patient from his past.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Joseph Sousa

  • Mr. Success
    7.7/108 votes

    #21 - Mr. Success

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/2017

    Marius' exacting parole officer insists that he come into the city for a mandatory appointment. To get there on time, Marius must fend off Pete's curious cousins Julia, Taylor, and Carly, an increasingly suspicious Audrey, and a terrifying ambush. Meanwhile, Eddie becomes desperate in captivity, Vince's lieutenant Winslow hunts for Marius, and a reluctant Katie helps Marius cover his tracks.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Fred Golan

  • Acid
    7.6/105 votes

    #22 - Acid

    Season 16 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/2005

    After the daughter of one of Van Buren's college friends is found dead in her room, a suicide, Van Buren joins Green and Fontana in hunting down the man who burned her face with acid months earlier, ultimately leading to her suicide. Van Buren is unsucces

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: N/A

  • Choice of Evils
    7.6/107 votes

    #23 - Choice of Evils

    Season 16 Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/2006

    After the body of a teenage boy is found dead in a warehouse, detectives use DNA to connect the boy to a convicted rapist and serial killer, then to the boy's mother, Allison Ashburn, the convict's ex-wife. While trying to solve Danny's murder, Fontana and Green learn that he recently got his girlfriend Tina pregnant, and his mother had seen him recently when she had given him money despite having claimed she hadn't seen him for months. Allison finally admits that she murdered her son after the police arrest her new husband John, but claims she did it to save the world from her son, whom she was convinced would become a monster just like her father. Borgia and McCoy face an uphill battle trying to convict the perfect soccer mom.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: David Wilcox

  • Here Comes the Flood
    7.6/108 votes

    #24 - Here Comes the Flood

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2008

    When the plumbing springs a leak, chaos breaks out at Seattle Grace as the Chief tries to put in place new teaching methods. Meanwhile, George takes his residency exam; and Derek attempts to get Meredith's roommates to move out, much to their surprise.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: Krista Vernoff

  • Producer's Backend
    7.6/107 votes

    #25 - Producer's Backend

    Season 16 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2014

    Amaro's by-the-book handling of a starlet's arrest gets him back on the SVU squad in time to investigate the actress's latest offense, statutory rape.

    Director: Michael Pressman

    Writer: N/A