The Best Episodes Written By Graham Yost
Every TV Episode Written by Graham Yost Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Graham Yost Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Graham Yost is "Decoy", rated 9/10 from 7 user votes. It was "directed by Michael W. Watkins". "Decoy" aired on 3/19/2013 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Watching the Detectives".
9.0/10 7 votes#1 - Decoy
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2013
After capturing Drew Thompson, Raylan must find a way to get him past Boyd and the Detroit mob henchmen who've been sent to stop him.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Graham Yost
8.9/10 9 votes#2 - Watching the Detectives
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/6/2012
A shocking murder forces Raylan to face past mistakes. Meanwhile, Boyd goes up against Harlan's corrupt sheriff.
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Graham Yost
8.7/10 67 votes#3 - The Breaking Point
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/2001
Easy Company battles near Foy, Belgium, losing numerous men. In the episode, the actions of 1st Lt. Norman Dike, the Company's commander, are examined and questioned. Serving as narrator is 1st Sgt. Carwood Lipton, who attempts to keep the morale of the men up as they endure their trials in the forest near Foy.
Director: David Frankel
Writer: Graham Yost
8.5/10 7 votes#4 - Sam
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/13/2017
Audrey and Otto argue over Audrey's unilateral decisions, the fallout from which may cost them their business. In the process of helping Otto investigate one of his nagging suspicions, Marius makes a major discovery about Audrey's finances. Meanwhile, Carly quizzes her mysterious cousin about his past, Julia rekindles her relationship with her ex Lance, and Vince has a new job for Eddie.
Director: Sarah Pia Anderson
Writer: Graham Yost
8.5/10 7 votes#5 - Switch
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/2018
Marius' plan implodes as it becomes clear he was wrong about the money's location, and must now face Luka's wrath. Julia, Valerie, Otto, and Sam square off with Colin and Ayawamat at the storage facility. Audrey discovers the danger of Luka and rushes to protect the family. Taylor settles accounts with Roby and Shannon. Maggie gives Carly new information about what happened to her parents.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Graham Yost
8.2/10 75 votes#6 - Replacements
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/2001
With the addition of many new men, Easy Company heads to Holland to participate in Operation Market Garden and prepare an Allied route into Germany, but they meet stiff German resistance.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Graham Yost
8.2/10 8 votes#7 - Safe
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2017
As business flags, tensions rise between Pete's grandparents, Otto and Audrey. Marius proposes a risky play to help Julia manage a dangerous client, but when they encounter problems, the "cousins" must rely on Audrey's expertise. While evading a mysterious pursuer, Marius visits former partners Katie and Karolina in NYC and remembers how three years ago, he made a powerful enemy of Vince.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Graham Yost
8.1/10 7 votes#8 - The Sinister Hotel Room Mystery
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/8/2018
Marius sees an opportunity when he is seized by two mercenaries searching for Pete's mother Maggie and the eleven million dollars she stole from their employer. Meanwhile, Audrey and Otto deal with the fallout from Winslow's death, and Julia struggles to keep her promise to Dockery.
Director: Adam Arkin
Writer: Graham Yost
8.1/10 47 votes#9 - Freedom Day
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/4/2023
Sheriff Becker's plans for the future are thrown off course after his wife meets a hacker with information about the silo.
Director: Morten Tyldum
Writer: Graham Yost
8.0/10 39 votes#10 - Fire in the Hole
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/16/2010
Gunslinging U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens faces off against his oldest friend in Harlan, Kentucky, a 21st Century Wild West.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Graham Yost
8.0/10 13 votes#11 - Save My Love
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/23/2011
Winona's blunder could put her behind bars, unless Raylan can weave his way through a federal courthouse locked down over death threats.
Director: Jon Avnet
Writer: Graham Yost
8.0/10 1 votes#12 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/15/2007
When a teenage girl, Sandy Boudreau, is found murdered, Detective Michael Raines is called to find out who killed her. During the investigation, an uninvited visitor comes back from her grave to help him to solve her case. While working on her case, Raines is trying to figure out how to stop being tortured by his imagination.
Director: Frank Darabont
Writer: Graham Yost
8.0/10 1 votes#13 - Meet Juan Doe
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/22/2007
Raines and his team have to put the pieces together when a decomposing body shows up in the Venice canals. When they finally identify the victim they find out he is an illegal immigrant and is somehow linked to a Los Angeles Councilman. Raines is sent to see a psychiatrist when the Captain thinks he's acting strange.
Director: N/A
Writer: Graham Yost
7.8/10 4 votes#14 - Mare Tranquilitatis
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/1998
The glare of the public eye, conflicts among the crew, disastrous simulations, and a series of harrowing last-minute crises threaten the Apollo 11 astronauts' success at pulling off NASA's crowning achievement—the first lunar landing.
Director: Frank Marshall
Writer: Graham Yost
7.8/10 20 votes#15 - The Moonshine War
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2011
Raylan tangles with a ruthless Harlan County crime family while hunting for a fugitive sex offender.
Director: Adam Arkin
Writer: Graham Yost
7.7/10 38 votes#16 - The Janitor's Boy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/25/2023
Sims appoints Billings as chief deputy to keep tabs on Juliette, whose efforts to solve two murders lead to a showdown.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Graham Yost
7.7/10 9 votes#17 - Slaughterhouse
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/10/2012
After the murder of his friend, Raylan is a man on fire as he goes after any- and everyone he holds responsible on the way to a bloody final showdown.
Director: Dean Parisot
Writer: Graham Yost
7.6/10 11 votes#18 - The Gunfighter
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2012
The arrival of a Detroit mobster in Lexington puts Raylan on a collision course with a sadistic Dixie Mafia hit man. Raylan also has another altercation with Boyd.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Graham Yost
7.6/10 27 votes#19 - Riverbrook
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/23/2010
Raylan hunts an escaped prisoner who is determined to reunite with his ex-wife...and his stashed fortune.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Graham Yost
7.6/10 8 votes#20 - A Murder of Crowes
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2014
As Raylan investigates the Crowe crime family's role in the disappearance of a corrupt Florida Coast Guard officer, Boyd revives a failed drug deal to help keep Ava's murder case from going to trial.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Graham Yost
7.5/10 22 votes#21 - Blind Spot
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2010
Raylan foils an attempt on Ava's life and vows to find out who was behind it. Later, Raylan finds out that Ava may not have been the target.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Graham Yost
7.5/10 4 votes#22 - Apollo 1
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/5/1998
The tragic death of Apollo's first three astronauts during a pre-launch test haunts the spacecraft's designers, as they struggle to come to terms with what happened, and find a way to save the moon program.
Director: David Frankel
Writer: Graham Yost
7.4/10 22 votes#23 - The Collection
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2010
After an apparent suicide on an opulent Kentucky horse farm, Raylan must resist the sexy widow as he searches for the dead man's missing art.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Graham Yost
6.9/10 15 votes#24 - The Armory
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/19/2011
While scouting for supplies, Tom, Hal and their squad encounter a gang of marauders determined to get their hands on the 2nd Massachusetts’ weapons. Leading the gang is an ex-con named John Pope, who decides to use his hostages as bargaining material.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Graham Yost
6.9/10 35 votes#25 - Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/4/2010
Finally enlisted as a Marine, Sledge trains for combat at Camp Elliott. The 1st Marine Division lands at Cape Gloucester on the Japanese-held island of New Britain. As Leckie and the other Marines battle the Japanese, they quickly realize that the more ominous enemy is the smothering jungle itself. Having survived Gloucester and stationed on the godforsaken island of Pavuvu, Leckie begins displaying the physical and mental effects of combat and is sent to a naval hospital on nearby Banika for psychiatric observation.
Director: Graham Yost
Writer: Graham Yost