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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

"Decoy" is the best rated episode written by Graham Yost. It scored 9/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by Michael W. Watkins. It aired on 3/19/2013 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Watching the Detectives".

  • Decoy
    9.0/107 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

  • Watching the Detectives
    8.9/109 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

  • The Breaking Point
    8.7/1069 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

  • Sam
    8.5/107 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

  • Switch
    8.5/107 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

  • Replacements
    8.3/1076 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

  • Safe
    8.2/108 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

  • Freedom Day
    8.1/1052 votes

    #8 - 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

  • The Sinister Hotel Room Mystery
    8.1/107 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Fire in the Hole
    8.0/1039 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

  • Save My Love
    8.0/1013 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

  • Pilot
    8.0/101 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

  • Meet Juan Doe
    8.0/101 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

  • Mare Tranquilitatis
    7.8/104 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

  • The Moonshine War
    7.8/1020 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

  • The Janitor's Boy
    7.7/1041 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

  • Slaughterhouse
    7.7/109 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

  • Riverbrook
    7.6/1027 votes

    #18 - 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

  • The Gunfighter
    7.6/1011 votes

    #19 - 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

  • A Murder of Crowes
    7.6/108 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

  • Apollo 1
    7.5/104 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Blind Spot
    7.5/1022 votes

    #22 - 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

  • The Collection
    7.4/1022 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

  • The Armory
    6.9/1015 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

  • Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika
    6.9/1035 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