He has also written for the television series "Herman's Head" and "Band of Brothers". He also created the short-lived NBC drama "Raines". Yost teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow "Boomtown" writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries "The Pacific". Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series "Justified", and an executive producer on the FX show "The Americans". In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the Amazon Studios series "Sneaky Pete". In May 2014 it was reported that Yost would develop a project for WGN America. Based on the Alex Kershaw book "Avenue of Spies", it would be set in Nazi-occupied Paris at the start of World War II.