2010s TV opening titles
The 2010s account for 760 of the 2,618 shows here, and 816 opening title sequences.
Drama leads the decade with 208, then comedy with 149.
Netflix carries more of them than anyone else, with 98.
31 rebuilt their titles mid-run, American Horror Story most of all with eleven sequences.
Filed by first broadcast. A show that ran for thirty years appears once, under the decade it started in.
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1 sequence
Stranger Things
Red letters assembling out of the dark in ITC Benguiat, glowing at the edges like a paperback cover left in the sun. An argument that a title sequence can be nothing but type and still do all the work.
- Seasons 1–4
2 sequences
Euphoria
No opening sequence as such. Each episode runs a cold open, often one character's history told in narration, and only then cuts to the title card.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequence
The Boys
Superhero iconography rendered as corporate branding and then defaced — the show's whole argument, done in graphics.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Night Manager
Le Carré's arms dealer and the hotelier sent in after him, opened by weapons assembling out of luxury.
- Season 2
2 sequences
Game of Thrones
A map that rebuilds itself each week. The clockwork cities shown change with the locations the episode visits, which makes it the rare title sequence carrying actual information.
- Season 1
- Season 8
1 sequence
3%
Netflix's first Brazilian original: a selection process that lets three in a hundred cross to the other side.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Peaky Blinders
Nick Cave's 'Red Right Hand' over Birmingham furnaces and a man walking away from a fire — a period drama scored entirely out of period.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Yellowstone
Montana filmed as a land claim — cattle, mountains and fence line, with the ranch's brand doing the title card.
- Season 1
1 sequence
For All Mankind
Archive footage of the space race, doctored — real newsreel edited so that the alternate history it depicts appears to have actually been filmed.
- Season 1
3 sequences
The Witcher
No sequence in the usual sense. Each episode opens on its own sigil, drawn together out of liquid silver and shards over black, with the theme beneath it.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
1 sequence
The Handmaid's Tale
Almost no titles at all — twelve seconds of black, two production cards, and the name in tall condensed capitals with HANDMAID'S picked out in red.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Outlander
'The Skye Boat Song' rewritten for a woman instead of a prince, over standing stones and Highland weather — and re-recorded in a new style each season to match wherever the story has been dragged.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Taskmaster
A bust of the host's head and a fanfare, in the register of a much grander programme than the one that follows.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Rookie
A five-second card: THE ROOKIE in tall white capitals over a row of Los Angeles palms against a hazy blue sky, and the episode is under way.
- Season 1
3 sequences
Homeland
Jazz, archive news audio and a child in a lion mask — a fever dream assembled from half a century of American foreign policy, recut every season with that year's crisis in it.
- Season 1
- Season 6
- Season 8
1 sequence
The Walking Dead
Rust, decay and abandoned objects, cut to a string figure that never resolves — a sequence about entropy rather than the dead.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Better Call Saul
A title card that gets worse every year on purpose: tracking errors, colour bleed and tape damage accumulating season by season, so the picture degrades at roughly the rate its subject does.
- Seasons 1–6
11 sequences
American Horror Story
An anthology, so there is no returning sequence to protect: Kyle Cooper builds a new one from scratch every season and the only thing carried across is the lettering. The sixth season is absent below because it went further still and threw the titles out altogether.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 8 more
1 sequence
Downton Abbey
A dog's back, a bell board and a house — thirty-one seconds establishing an entire social order without showing a single face.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Fargo
Snow, and the claim that this is a true story, which it is not — an anthology that opens every season by lying to you in a title card.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Morning Show
Broadcast graphics assembling and collapsing — the machinery of a network morning programme, shown as the thing that eats the people in front of it.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequence
Shameless
A bathroom door opening on each member of the family in turn — an entire household characterised through one room.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Family Man
A middle-class Mumbai father who is also a National Investigation Agency officer, and cannot tell his family either job is real.
- Season 3
3 sequences
Dark
Faces split and mirrored against themselves, reflected into a second image that is never quite the same person — a show about the same people at four ages, saying so before a word is spoken.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3