8.4/10119 votes#1 - Live Bait
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/2013
Following his defeat at Woodbury, the Governor wanders aimlessly until he encounters a family in need.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Nichole Beattie
8.4/105 votes#2 - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 9/24/2017
For Bunchy's sake, Ray is forced to step in and save Mickey from himself. Terry returns to LA with a devastating confession. Daryll and Mickey butt heads over the direction of their movie. Bunchy helps out a fellow inmate - on the condition that he'll help retrieve the settlement money. And one Donovan goes to extreme measures to protect the family.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Chad Feehan
8.4/1014 votes#3 - South Side Rules
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 3/22/2015
Frank has a ball with his new sick friend and formerly uptight doctor.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Sheila Callaghan
8.4/1013 votes#4 - Christmas Waltz
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 5/20/2012
Harry finds himself in an uncomfortable position after reconnecting with Paul Kinsey who has joined the Hare Krishnas. Lane takes drastic and unethical measures to get out of financial trouble. Don spends an afternoon with Joan to get her mind off her marital problems.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Matthew Weiner
8.3/1073 votes#5 - Waiting for Dutch
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2015
In 1979, an unexpected turn of events at a diner disrupts the lives of the citizens in a small Minnesota town.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Noah Hawley
8.2/1018 votes#6 - A Day's Work
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2014
Peggy receives a bouquet of flowers at the office. Pete navigates the politics of new business. Joan is put in an impossibly awkward situation.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Matthew Weiner
8.0/1011 votes#7 - The Color Blue
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/18/2009
The firm celebrates as they hit a milestone. Peggy and Paul compete to secure the same account.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Matthew Weiner
8.0/109 votes#8 - Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 8/1/2010
The agency's Christmas party is nearly spoiled by the late arrival of a surprise and not-so-welcome visitor.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Matthew Weiner
8.0/1061 votes#9 - The Myth of Sisyphus
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/2015
The Gerhardts' search for Rye intensifies. Lou takes a trip to Fargo. Peggy overhears a new theory about the Waffle Hut shooter.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Bob DeLaurentis
8.0/1063 votes#10 - Fear and Trembling
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/2/2015
Floyd responds to Kansas City’s proposal, Hanzee takes a road trip, and Lou has a realization.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Steve Blackman
8.0/108 votes#11 - Angel of Mercy (2)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/18/2020
Ratched helps Edmund find an outlet for his urges and offers her services to Wainwright. Tired of living a lie, Gwendolyn leaves her husband.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Evan Romansky
8.0/104 votes#12 - Brooklyn
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/2015
Days before the world's first nuclear explosion, everyone races to secure their place in history.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Dustin Thomason
8.0/1073 votes#13 - Guilty as Sin
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/18/2016
As the firm's trial spins out of control, a figure from Murdock's past returns to deliver shocking revelations about the future of Hell's Kitchen.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Whit Anderson
7.9/1017 votes#14 - The Crash
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 5/19/2013
The creative department has a wild, drug-influenced weekend as they work on the Chevy account, Don has trouble letting go of Sylvia, and Sally walks in on an unwelcome intruder.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Matthew Weiner
7.9/1050 votes#15 - The Narrow Escape Problem
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/2017
Emmit and Sy try to figure out what they've gotten themselves into, Nikki and Ray track down some collateral, and Gloria learns more about Maurice.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Monica Beletsky
7.9/1010 votes#16 - Rodef
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 9/21/2014
Ray prepares in case he's arrested. Mickey's heist doesn't go as planned.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Ron Nyswaner
7.9/107 votes#17 - Acceptable Limits
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/31/2014
Frank seeks medical answers; Charlie and Helen travel to survey an off-site reactor.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Dustin Thomason
7.8/1017 votes#18 - New Business
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 4/12/2015
Roger gives Don some unwanted advice. Peggy and Stan disagree over an account's personnel. Harry asks for Don's blessing.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Matthew Weiner
7.8/1010 votes#19 - At the Codfish Ball
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 4/29/2012
Don is honored at a banquet for the American Cancer Society, but finds his professional reputation has been damaged. Sally lends a hand to a relative. Megan's parents come to visit from Canada.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Jonathan Igla
7.8/1024 votes#20 - The Box
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/1/2018
Henry urges the Kid to accept the prison's settlement and investigates his own disappearance decades earlier. A Shawshank prison guard snaps.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Scott Brown
7.8/104 votes#21 - Arrival
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/27/2019
Dr. Nancy Jaax has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world handling deadly viruses; after a lab accident, she is faced with a possible Ebola outbreak on U.S. soil.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: N/A
7.8/103 votes#22 - Cell H
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/27/2019
Dr. Nancy Jaax and her lab partner, Dr. Peter Jahrling, must take matters into their own hands to determine the source of the virus before it spreads; Dr. Jaax convinces an employee to hand over samples from infected monkeys.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: N/A
7.8/105 votes#23 - The Assassination of Monica Lewinsky
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/2021
The world learns about the affair and Monica Lewinsky becomes the most famous woman in America.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Sarah Burgess
7.8/108 votes#24 - Providence
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/25/2015
The French join the fray. Caleb makes an uncomfortable trip and Abe makes an even more uncomfortable choice. Robert Rodgers finds himself unexpectedly unemployed.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Andrew Colville
7.8/1018 votes#25 - To Have and to Hold
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2013
Don works in secret on a Heinz ketchup campaign while Megan gets a love scene on the set of her soap opera. Meanwhile, Harry makes his power play while Joan has more trouble with the secretaries.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: Erin Levy
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"Live Bait" is the best rated episode directed by Michael Uppendahl. It scored 8.416/10 based on 119 votes. It was written by Nichole Beattie. It aired on 11/17/2013 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "If I Should Fall from Grace with God".