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
The best episode directed by Michael Pressman is "To Serve with Love", rated 9.5/10 from 4 user votes. It was "written by Adam Belanoff". "To Serve with Love" aired on 7/25/2011 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Saving Face".
9.5/10 4 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
9.2/10 6 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
9.0/10 2 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
8.7/10 3 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
8.7/10 3 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
8.5/10 2 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
8.5/10 2 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
8.5/10 4 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
8.2/10 5 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
8.0/10 4 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
8.0/10 3 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
8.0/10 4 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
8.0/10 4 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
8.0/10 3 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
8.0/10 3 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
8.0/10 1 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
7.8/10 5 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
7.8/10 4 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
7.7/10 7 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
7.7/10 3 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
7.7/10 8 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
7.6/10 5 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
7.6/10 8 votes#23 - 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
7.6/10 7 votes#24 - 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
7.6/10 7 votes#25 - 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