The 2020s

423 shows that began in the 2020s, and the 432 title sequences they opened with.

Filed by first broadcast. A show that ran for thirty years appears once, under the decade it started in.

1 sequence

Pluribus

2025–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Vince Gilligan's first series after Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, opened in twenty-one seconds.

Season 1

2 sequences

Wednesday

2022–NetflixHorror

Gothic paper-cut animation and a harpsichord, doing in seventy-nine seconds what the Addams Family finger-snap did in eight.

Season 1
Season 2

2 sequences

Bridgerton

2020–NetflixDrama

Engraved invitations, wax seals and bees, assembled like a society page being typeset — the gossip sheet that drives the plot, doing the credits.

Season 1
Season 2

3 sequences

House of the Dragon

2022–HBODrama

The parent show mapped a continent; this one traces a bloodline. Where Game of Thrones built cities, these titles follow blood running through stone channels and a tapestry recording who killed whom.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3

1 sequence

Slow Horses

2022–Apple TV+Drama

London surveillance imagery over a theme Mick Jagger wrote for the show — a spy series whose titles are as shabby and unglamorous as its office.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fallout

2024–Prime VideoSci-Fi

Retro-futurist advertising for a world that ended — the games' Vault-Tec aesthetic reproduced exactly, and varied per episode.

Season 1

1 sequence

From

2022–MGM+Horror

'Que Sera, Sera' over a town nobody can leave — a cheerful standard used as a threat, which is the oldest trick in horror and still works.

Season 1

2 sequences

Severance

2022–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

A man walking through his own head, drawn as a corporate-training diagram that keeps folding back into itself. Oliver Latta's animation, and the best argument in years that a title sequence can be the thesis.

Season 1
Season 2

1 sequence

Adolescence

2025NetflixDrama

A quiet card over domestic detail, for a series shot in single unbroken takes — the only cut in some episodes arrives in the titles.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ted Lasso

2020–Apple TV+Comedy

Twenty-three seconds of illustrated football club iconography and a brass hook — brisk, warm, and gone before it can outstay itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Beef

2023–NetflixDrama

A different David Choe painting behind the title card of every episode, so the opening is a gallery hung one canvas at a time across the season.

Season 1

1 sequence

Industry

2020–HBODrama

Twenty-two seconds of type and glass. A trading-floor show whose opening is over before you have settled, which is roughly how the job is depicted.

Season 1

3 sequences

The White Lotus

2021–HBODrama

Colonial wallpaper that will not behave — painted paradise curdling into something predatory while the resort's guests are nowhere in it. Rebuilt from scratch for each new location, with a new theme every time.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3

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Invincible

2021–Prime VideoAnimation

A title card that gets progressively more blood-spattered as the season goes on — the show's escalation, tracked in one graphic.

Season 1

1 sequence

Silo

2023–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

A cross-section of the silo, descending. The camera falls the length of a buried structure the characters spend the series failing to understand, which tells you the shape of the thing before the plot does.

Season 1

1 sequence

Shrinking

2023–Apple TV+Comedy

Hand-drawn scribbles over domestic footage, in the register of a therapist's notebook margin.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dexter: Resurrection

2025ShowtimeCrime

The continuation that throws away the two-minute breakfast ritual the original was famous for and replaces it with a six-second card.

Season 1

1 sequence

Peacemaker

2022–HBO MaxComedy

The entire cast dancing in formation, in costume, completely deadpan, to Wig Wam's 'Do Ya Wanna Taste It'. No plot content whatsoever, and the best argument on this site for titles as a bit.

Season 1

1 sequence

Your Friends & Neighbors

2025–Apple TV+Drama

Suburban wealth catalogued object by object — watches, cars and kitchens shot like an inventory, which is what the series turns them into.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Gilded Age

2022–HBODrama

Gold leaf, marble and needlework assembling into Fifth Avenue interiors — new money buying its way into an old frame, told entirely through surfaces.

Season 1

1 sequence

Foundation

2021–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Mathematics rendered as architecture — the Prime Radiant's equations building and dissolving structures across millennia.

Season 1

1 sequence

Daredevil: Born Again

2025–Disney+Crime

The revival, which rebuilds the Netflix series' red-liquid city rather than replacing it.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Night Agent

2023–NetflixDrama

Surveillance geometry and a ringing phone, built out of the one object the whole premise hangs on.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Boroughs

2026NetflixDrama

A 2026 Netflix series — and the reason an earlier attempt at Suburra was rejected, since this is what that search kept returning.

Season 1

1 sequence

Only Murders in the Building

2021–HuluComedy

The Arconia drawn as a cutaway illustration with the residents inside it, redrawn each season as the building's secrets change.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Last of Us

2023–HBODrama

Cordyceps growing across a map — mould spreading through a continent in time-lapse until the shapes it leaves behind resolve into two figures. Gustavo Santaolalla's guitar, carried over from the game.

Season 1

1 sequence

Interview with the Vampire

2022–AMCHorror

Anne Rice adapted as a long interview, with an opening that lasts twenty-two seconds and does not waste one of them.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Chair Company

2025HBOComedy

Tim Robinson on a man who will not let a collapsing office chair go.

Season 1

1 sequence

Death by Lightning

2025NetflixDrama

Garfield's presidency and Guiteau's pursuit of it, told as the collision it was.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dark Winds

2022–AMCCrime

Tony Hillerman's Navajo Tribal Police novels, opened across the same high desert the cases cross.

Season 1

1 sequence

Alice in Borderland

2020–NetflixSci-Fi

An emptied Tokyo shot as architecture — Shibuya with nobody in it, which is more unsettling than anything the games do.

Season 1

1 sequence

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

2022–Paramount+Sci-Fi

A deliberate return to the old shape after two shows that avoided it — the Enterprise sweeping past ringed planets and ice moons, Pike narrating, and a theme that keeps reaching for Courage's original without ever quite quoting it.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

3 Body Problem

2024–NetflixSci-Fi

Three suns and a countdown, rendered as physics rather than drama — the orbital problem of the title animated until it stops looking solvable.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dept. Q

2025NetflixCrime

Edinburgh stone and basement strip-lighting — a cold-case unit introduced by the room it was exiled to.

Season 1

1 sequence

Smiling Friends

2020–Adult SwimAnimation

A tiny company whose job is making people happy, with a title card that is over almost before it starts.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Betty

2020–2021HBOComedy

A group of women skateboarding in New York, expanded from the film Skate Kitchen.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Day of the Jackal

2024–Sky Atlantic / PeacockDrama

Celeste singing over a European manhunt — a series that opens like a Bond film and then declines to behave like one.

Season 1

1 sequence

Reacher

2022–Prime VideoCrime

Lee Child's drifter, adapted at the scale the books describe rather than the one previous adaptations settled for.

Season 1

1 sequence

Chief of War

2025–Apple TV+Drama

Hawaiian carving, cloth and volcanic landscape, filmed as artefacts of a nation rather than scenery.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Mighty Nein

2025Prime VideoAnimation

Critical Role's second campaign animated, three years after The Legend of Vox Machina did the first.

Season 1

1 sequence

Abbott Elementary

2021–ABCComedy

A Philadelphia public school shot as a documentary, and the first network comedy in years to become a hit on its own terms.

Season 1

1 sequence

Squid Game

2021–2025NetflixDrama

Childhood playground shapes — circle, triangle, square — turned into a brand so completely that the symbols now read as threat before they read as games.

Season 3

1 sequence

Shōgun

2024–FXDrama

Ink and weather. Landscapes, ships and figures resolve out of washes of black and grey as though the frame is being painted while you watch, then dissolve before any of it settles.

Season 1

1 sequence

Andor

2022–2025Disney+Sci-Fi

A Star Wars show that refuses the fanfare: a plain card, a few bars, and straight in. The restraint is the statement.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Hijack

2023–Apple TV+Drama

Flight paths, cabin geometry and a clock — a series told in real time, saying so before it starts.

Season 2

1 sequence

Emily in Paris

2020–NetflixComedy

Paris as a postcard rack — every landmark in order, photographed exactly as the show's protagonist would photograph them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Tehran

2020–Apple TV+Drama

Surveillance imagery and city geometry, cut so that watching and being watched look like the same activity.

Season 2

1 sequence

A Man on the Inside

2024–NetflixComedy

A retired professor sent undercover into a care home, from the creator of The Good Place.

Season 1

1 sequence

Resident Alien

2021–SyfySci-Fi

An alien stranded in small-town Colorado, impersonating the doctor whose body he took.

Season 1

1 sequence

Clarkson's Farm

2021–Prime VideoDocumentary

Jeremy Clarkson farming a thousand Cotswold acres badly, and the year-shaped structure the titles borrow from.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hacks

2021–MaxComedy

Las Vegas residency glamour, played straight enough to sting — a comedian's brand doing the work of a title sequence.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Legend of Vox Machina

2022–Prime VideoAnimation

The first Critical Role campaign animated as a series, with a proper broadcast title sequence to go with it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mare of Easttown

2021HBOCrime

Delaware County in winter — vinyl siding, chain-link, a quarry — over Lucius's 'Drunk'. Thirty-four seconds that refuse to make the place look like anything but itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cross

2024–Prime VideoCrime

James Patterson's Alex Cross novels, with a second-season sequence rebuilt from scratch.

Season 2

1 sequence

The Penguin

2024HBOCrime

A flooded, ruined Gotham shot like a crime photograph — standing water, wet brick, no heroics anywhere in it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Citadel

2023–Prime VideoDrama

The Russo brothers' spy franchise, built to spawn local-language series in several countries at once.

Season 1

1 sequence

Arcane

2021–2024NetflixAnimation

Painterly animation of two sisters pulling apart, rendered in the same hand-worked style as the series — one of the few animated openings that is not a step down from the show it introduces.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

2023–AMCHorror

The franchise moved to France, with a title sequence built out of religious iconography rather than decay.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dune: Prophecy

2024–HBOSci-Fi

The Bene Gesserit ten thousand years before the films, with a title sequence built from spice and sand.

Season 1

1 sequence

Elsbeth

2024–CBSCrime

The Good Wife's oddest lawyer given a Columbo format of her own, and nine seconds to introduce it.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Residence

2025NetflixCrime

The White House drawn as a cutaway doll's house, every room a suspect — a whodunnit that hands you the floor plan first.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Last Thing He Told Me

2023Apple TV+Crime

A houseboat, a marina and water — a disappearance introduced by the place the missing man left behind.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Queen's Gambit

2020NetflixDrama

Pieces, pills and ceiling tiles falling through one another — the board and the addiction rendered as the same descending motion.

Season 1

1 sequence

Black Bird

2022Apple TV+Crime

Prison corridors and Midwestern fields intercut, so the confinement and the killing ground read as one landscape.

Season 1

1 sequence

Poker Face

2023–PeacockCrime

Seventies title design executed exactly, for a case-of-the-week mystery deliberately built on the Columbo model.

Season 1

1 sequence

Task

2025HBOCrime

An FBI task force in the Philadelphia suburbs, from the writer of Mare of Easttown.

Season 1

1 sequence

Love & Death

2023HBO MaxCrime

Suburban Texas in the early eighties — lawns, church halls and kitchen counters filmed with the flatness of a case file.

Season 1

1 sequence

Invasion

2021–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Geometry spreading across the globe like frost, seen from far enough away that no one on the ground is visible.

Season 1

1 sequence

Normal People

2020BBC Three / HuluDrama

Twenty-four seconds and a card, for an adaptation that treats silence as its main instrument.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mayfair Witches

2023–AMCHorror

Anne Rice's New Orleans witches, in the same continuity AMC built for the vampires.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dexter: Original Sin

2024–Paramount+ with ShowtimeCrime

The prequel, which restages the breakfast routine of the original's titles for a younger version of the same man.

Season 1

1 sequence

Masters of the Air

2024Apple TV+Drama

Bomber nose art, contrails and flak, in the tradition of Band of Brothers — and at over two and a half minutes, one of the longest openings on this site.

Season 1

1 sequence

Jujutsu Kaisen

2020–MBS / TBSAnimation

Eve's 'Kaikai Kitan' over animation that keeps breaking its own frame — one of the sequences that made the studio's reputation.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Agency

2024–Paramount+ with ShowtimeDrama

The American adaptation of The Bureau, which this catalogue could not find footage of in its original French.

Season 1

1 sequence

Baby Reindeer

2024NetflixDrama

Eighteen seconds and almost nothing in them, which for a series this claustrophobic is the correct amount of air.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fire Country

2022–CBSDrama

A convict on a Northern California firefighting crew, working off his sentence.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Wheel of Time

2021–Prime VideoDrama

A tapestry weaving itself, unpicking, and starting again — the series' cosmology of cycles, stated as a loom.

Season 1

1 sequence

Presumed Innocent

2024–Apple TV+Crime

Evidence photographs and courtroom stone, shot cold enough that guilt and innocence look identical.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

2022NetflixAnimation

Franz Ferdinand over Night City, cut by Studio Trigger at a speed that dares you to keep up.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sugar

2024–Apple TV+Crime

Classic Hollywood noir imagery cut against modern Los Angeles — a detective series that keeps quoting the films it is standing inside.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Walking Dead: Dead City

2023–AMCHorror

Maggie and Negan in a cut-off Manhattan, in the first of the spin-offs to give its pairing the whole hour.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hunters

2020–2023Prime VideoDrama

Seventies exploitation-poster design applied to Nazi hunting in 1977 New York, with all the tastelessness that implies deliberately left in.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ironheart

2025Disney+Sci-Fi

An MIT student building her own armour, and nine seconds to introduce her.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lazarus

2025Adult SwimAnimation

Shinichirō Watanabe's series with action by Chad Stahelski, opened to Kamasi Washington.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blue Eye Samurai

2023–NetflixAnimation

Ink, forge-fire and steel — a blade being made, in the same brushwork the series uses for its violence.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Staircase

2022HBO MaxCrime

The dramatisation of the Michael Peterson case, made about the documentary crew as much as the trial.

Season 1

1 sequence

NCIS: Origins

2024–CBSCrime

Gibbs in 1991, twenty-one years before the parent series began.

Season 1

1 sequence

Murderbot

2025–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Corporate spacefaring iconography interrupted by the soap operas its narrator would rather be watching.

Season 1

1 sequence

Halo

2022–2024Paramount+Sci-Fi

The Bungie games adapted, with Master Chief's helmet coming off in the first episode.

Season 1

1 sequence

My Adventures with Superman

2023–Adult Swim / MaxAnimation

Clark, Lois and Jimmy in their twenties, animated in an anime register with an opening to match.

Season 1

1 sequence

Daisy Jones & The Six

2023Prime VideoDrama

A fictional 1970s band told as a rockumentary, with the songs written for it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Taxi Driver

2021–2023SBSCrime

A taxi company that takes revenge on behalf of crime victims, from the webtoon.

Season 1

1 sequence

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

2023NetflixDrama

The Bridgerton prequel, opened by an animated sequence in the manner of an illuminated manuscript.

Season 1

1 sequence

Palm Royale

2024–Apple TV+Comedy

Late-sixties Palm Beach as a resort brochure — pastels, poolside and social climbing, all rendered with a completely straight face.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dark Matter

2024–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

One man's life branching into every version it could have taken, rendered by Imaginary Forces as a structure that will not stop dividing.

Season 1

1 sequence

All of Us Are Dead

2022–NetflixHorror

School notebooks, corridors and lab equipment, cut fast enough that the outbreak reads as timetabled.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War

2022–TV TokyoAnimation

The final arc animated a decade after the original series ended, with a new opening for each cour in the tradition the show established.

Season 1

1 sequence

Devil May Cry

2025NetflixAnimation

The Capcom games animated by the Castlevania team, with an opening cut to match.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Idol

2023HBODrama

Studio lighting, mirrors and pop-star iconography, presented without irony.

Season 1

1 sequence

Platonic

2023–Apple TV+Comedy

Hand-lettered titles over Los Angeles in the afternoon, keeping the show's register exactly: pleasant, and slightly off.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Institute

2025MGM+Sci-Fi

Stephen King's facility for children with abilities, who are told they are there to help.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Glory

2022–2023NetflixDrama

A go board, scar tissue and winter light — the revenge plot laid out as a game with pieces already placed.

Season 1

1 sequence

Zero Day

2025NetflixDrama

Robert De Niro as a former president investigating a cyberattack, in his first television series.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fool Me Once

2024NetflixCrime

A widow who sees her dead husband on a nanny camera, from the Harlan Coben deal.

Season 1

1 sequence

Eyes of Wakanda

2025Disney+Animation

Wakandan agents across four periods of history, opened by a hand-drawn sequence unlike anything else Marvel has put on television.

Season 1

1 sequence

Smoke

2025Apple TV+Crime

Fire filmed close enough to lose its shape — an arson series whose titles are almost entirely texture.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Perfect Couple

2024NetflixCrime

The cast dancing on a Nantucket lawn in wedding clothes, entirely straight-faced — a tonal misdirection the series never repeats.

Season 1

1 sequence

Weak Hero Class

2022–2025Wavve / NetflixDrama

A top student fighting his way through school violence, from the webtoon.

Season 2

1 sequence

The Serpent Queen

2022–2024StarzDrama

Catherine de' Medici narrating her own rise directly to camera.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sakamoto Days

2025–TV Tokyo / NetflixAnimation

A retired hitman running a corner shop, and everyone from the old life who keeps turning up.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Haunting of Bly Manor

2020NetflixHorror

The Turn of the Screw as the second Haunting, with the same company of actors in different parts.

Season 1

1 sequence

Gangs of London

2020–Sky Atlantic / AMC+Crime

A London crime empire after its head is killed, directed with the fight choreography of a feature.

Season 1

1 sequence

Snowpiercer

2020–2024TNT / AMCSci-Fi

The Bong Joon-ho film continued as a series on a train that cannot stop, opened in fourteen seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

Pantheon

2022–2023AMC+Animation

Uploaded human consciousnesses at war, animated and almost entirely overlooked.

Season 1

1 sequence

Never Have I Ever

2020–2023NetflixComedy

Mindy Kaling's high-school series, narrated by John McEnroe for reasons the titles do not explain.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

2024AMCHorror

Rick and Michonne given the ending the parent series never got round to.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lessons in Chemistry

2023Apple TV+Drama

Laboratory glassware and 1950s kitchen surfaces filmed identically, so the science and the domesticity become the same set of tools.

Season 1

1 sequence

American Horror Stories

2021–FXHorror

The American Horror Story spin-off, one self-contained hour at a time instead of one story a season.

Season 1

1 sequence

What If...?

2021–2024Disney+Animation

The Watcher narrating alternative versions of the films, with a sequence that assembles and dismantles itself every week.

Season 1

1 sequence

Pachinko

2022–Apple TV+Drama

The entire cast dancing in a pachinko parlour, grinning, in period costume — a sequence with no relationship to the show's tone and all the better for it.

Season 1

1 sequence

1899

2022NetflixSci-Fi

From the makers of Dark, and it shows: mirrored imagery and a ship's geometry folding back on itself, over a slowed cover of 'White Rabbit'.

Season 1

1 sequence

Loki

2021–2023Disney+Sci-Fi

Bureaucratic typography and timeline diagrams — a superhero series whose titles are styled after an office that manages history.

Season 1

1 sequence

Alchemy of Souls

2022–2023tvNDrama

Souls swapped between bodies in a fictional kingdom, from the Hong sisters.

Season 1

1 sequence

Nine Perfect Strangers

2021–HuluDrama

Wellness-retreat imagery filmed until it turns sinister — smoothies, mountains and breathing exercises, all slightly too still.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Acolyte

2024Disney+Sci-Fi

A Jedi murder mystery a century before the prequels, with ten seconds of titles for a franchise that opened on a crawl.

Season 1

1 sequence

Vikings: Valhalla

2022–2024NetflixDrama

The Vikings sequel, set a century later, and made for a different service than the one that cancelled the parent.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

2024–Prime VideoDrama

The film remade as a series about the marriage rather than the shooting, with Donald Glover and Maya Erskine.

Season 1

1 sequence

Long Story Short

2025NetflixAnimation

Raphael Bob-Waksberg's family comedy, which jumps decades between scenes and uses its titles to say so.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blue Lock

2022–TV AsahiAnimation

Football shot like a psychological thriller, with the players lit as though they are about to commit something.

Season 1

1 sequence

NCIS: Sydney

2023–Paramount+ / Network 10Crime

The first NCIS made outside America, with an Australian and American team sharing a desk.

Season 1

1 sequence

Somebody Somewhere

2022–2024HBOComedy

Kansas roads and grain elevators, filmed without a trace of irony — a small show that declines to make its setting a joke.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Watcher

2022–NetflixHorror

A house filmed from outside, at the distance a neighbour would stand — which is the entire threat.

Season 1

1 sequence

Batman: Caped Crusader

2024–Prime VideoAnimation

The Animated Series team returning to a 1940s Gotham, with titles that quote their own 1992 sequence without repeating it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cabinet of Curiosities

2022NetflixHorror

A physical cabinet opened drawer by drawer, each one holding the object that episode is about — an anthology that indexes itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bad Sisters

2022–Apple TV+Comedy

Five sisters and the man they intend to kill, arranged like a family portrait that keeps rearranging itself.

Season 1

2 sequences

Star Trek: Picard

2020–2023Paramount+Sci-Fi

An opening about memory rather than exploration. Fragments of a life — a vineyard, a Borg cube, a face — resolve out of swirling particles, and only at the very end does it admit it is a Star Trek show.

Seasons 1–2
Season 3

1 sequence

Law & Order: Organized Crime

2021–NBC / PeacockCrime

Stabler brought back a decade after leaving Special Victims Unit, into a serialised format the franchise had never used.

Season 1

1 sequence

Common Side Effects

2025Adult SwimAnimation

A mushroom that cures anything, and everyone who would rather it did not exist.

Season 1

1 sequence

WandaVision

2021Disney+Sci-Fi

A different decade's sitcom opening every week — hand-drawn fifties, animated sixties, video-tape seventies, saccharine eighties, mockumentary two-thousands — each one a faithful pastiche of a real show's titles, and each one a little more wrong than the last.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Rehearsal

2022–HBOComedy

Constructed sets and blueprints presented with total sincerity, which is the only register the show ever uses.

Season 2

1 sequence

Farzi

2023–Prime VideoCrime

A struggling artist forging banknotes well enough to destabilise the currency.

Season 1

1 sequence

Panchayat

2020–Prime VideoComedy

An engineering graduate taking a village secretary's job in Uttar Pradesh because nothing better came.

Season 1

1 sequence

Shadow and Bone

2021–2023NetflixDrama

A sequence that changes with the episode — the imagery inside the letterforms is recut each week to match what is about to happen.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Queen of Tears

2024tvNDrama

A married couple at the top of a retail conglomerate, three years in and barely speaking.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Empress

2022–NetflixDrama

Habsburg portraiture and court embroidery, arranged so the jewellery reads as restraint rather than wealth.

Season 1

1 sequence

Schmigadoon!

2021–2023Apple TV+Comedy

A couple trapped inside a Golden Age musical that will not let them leave until they find true love.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Offer

2022Paramount+Drama

The making of The Godfather, opened in the visual language of the film it is about.

Season 1

1 sequence

WeCrashed

2022Apple TV+Drama

Startup iconography inflating and bursting — open-plan glass, beanbags and valuation charts, treated as one continuous bubble.

Season 1

1 sequence

Adults

2025FXComedy

Five friends sharing a Queens house and failing at adulthood.

Season 1

1 sequence

Loot

2022–Apple TV+Comedy

Extreme wealth drawn as a cheerful animated inventory — yachts, jets and foundations, arranged like a toy catalogue.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Owl House

2020–2023Disney ChannelAnimation

A human girl apprenticed to a witch on the Boiling Isles.

Season 1

1 sequence

Chainsaw Man

2022–TV TokyoAnimation

An opening built almost entirely out of film references — a different movie restaged in nearly every shot, at a speed that makes spotting them a second viewing's work.

Season 1

1 sequence

Star Wars: Visions

2021–Disney+Animation

Ten seconds and a card, deliberately — an anthology handing each episode to a different studio to open however it likes.

Season 1

1 sequence

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

2022ENADrama

An autistic lawyer at a Seoul firm, and the biggest word-of-mouth hit Korean television had that year.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hightown

2020–2024StarzCrime

A fisheries agent in Provincetown pulled into an overdose investigation she should not be near.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lovely Runner

2024tvNDrama

A fan travelling back fifteen years to stop her favourite singer's death.

Season 1

1 sequence

Berlin

2023–NetflixCrime

The Money Heist prequel, giving the character who died in the second season a heist of his own.

Season 1

1 sequence

Inventing Anna

2022NetflixDrama

Fashion-magazine layout and Manhattan gloss, assembled with the confidence of something that cannot afford itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lovecraft Country

2020HBOHorror

Twelve seconds — a card, a horn stab, and straight into an episode that will not be the same genre as the last one.

Season 1

1 sequence

Grotesquerie

2024FXHorror

Ryan Murphy's detective series about a series of killings that read as tableaux.

Season 1

1 sequence

Quantum Leap (2022)

2022–2024NBCSci-Fi

The revival, which restages the original's narrated premise for a new leaper thirty years on.

Season 1

1 sequence

Krapopolis

2023–FoxAnimation

Dan Harmon's mythological Greek city, run badly by a family of gods and monsters.

Season 1

1 sequence

Star Trek: Lower Decks

2020–2024Paramount+Animation

The joke is in the structure: it opens exactly like a heroic Trek title sequence, and then the ship spends the entire minute getting wrecked by everything it meets. The Cerritos never wins a single shot of its own opening.

Seasons 1–5

1 sequence

FBI: Most Wanted

2020–2025CBSCrime

The first FBI spin-off, following the fugitive task force, in nine seconds of title card.

Season 1

1 sequence

Business Proposal

2022SBSComedy

A blind date under a false identity that turns out to be with the company's chief executive.

Season 1

1 sequence

Agatha All Along

2024Disney+Horror

The WandaVision villain given a witches' road to walk down, and a theme that was a joke song first.

Season 1

1 sequence

Locke & Key

2020–2022NetflixHorror

Keys turning in locks that open onto rooms which should not exist, drawn from the comic's own conceit.

Season 1

1 sequence

How I Met Your Father

2022–2023HuluComedy

The How I Met Your Mother format restaged, with the same framing device and fifteen seconds of titles.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

2022Prime VideoAnimation

Eight animated shorts in the same universe, each by a different studio, and eleven seconds to introduce all of them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Welcome to Wrexham

2022–FXDocumentary

Two American actors buying a Welsh football club, and a title sequence that treats the town as the subject rather than them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Marry My Husband

2024tvNDrama

A woman murdered by her husband, sent back ten years to arrange a different outcome.

Season 1

1 sequence

Scavengers Reign

2023MaxAnimation

Alien biology drawn with botanical-illustration patience — organisms doing something to each other that the show will spend an episode explaining.

Season 1

1 sequence

We Own This City

2022HBOCrime

Baltimore again, from the makers of The Wire, but shot as surveillance and body-camera footage rather than drama.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dracula

2020BBC OneHorror

Moffat and Gatiss after Sherlock, with three feature-length episodes and a different idea in each.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bad Monkey

2024–Apple TV+Crime

Florida Keys sunshine playing over things that should not be in it — a comic crime series that keeps its tone in the titles.

Season 1

1 sequence

Obi-Wan Kenobi

2022Disney+Sci-Fi

Ten years into the exile on Tatooine, with the character and the actor both back after seventeen years.

Season 1

1 sequence

Raised by Wolves

2020–2022HBO MaxSci-Fi

Androids, soil and bone rendered in the same clinical grey — a sequence with no warmth in it at all, for a show about parenting.

Season 1

1 sequence

Tokyo Vice

2022–2024HBO MaxCrime

Neon reflected in wet Shinjuku streets, shot from a car — a foreign correspondent's view of a city he does not yet read.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

The Curse

2023Showtime / A24Comedy

Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie's series about a house-flipping couple, whose opening credits are different in every single episode.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mythic Quest

2020–2025Apple TV+Comedy

Twelve seconds of game-engine fantasy, presented with the seriousness of a launch trailer for a product nobody in the show can finish.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sweet Home

2020–2024NetflixHorror

The apartment block as a cross-section, with something wrong in every unit — the show's premise drawn as a floor plan.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Continental: From the World of John Wick

2023PeacockCrime

The hotel's origin in 1970s New York, three episodes long.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Peripheral

2022Prime VideoSci-Fi

William Gibson adapted across two futures, cancelled after one season.

Season 1

1 sequence

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

2023NetflixAnimation

The O'Malley books animated by Science SARU, with an opening in the full Japanese OP tradition.

Season 1

1 sequence

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

2021–2024Disney+Animation

The Clone Wars continued with a squad of defective clones, and a title card that keeps the parent series' logo shape.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Dropout

2022HuluDrama

Silicon Valley branding assembled and then quietly taken apart, for a company that was never anything but branding.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ratched

2020NetflixHorror

Mid-century clinical design turned lurid — surgical steel, pastel tile and hypodermics arranged with the care of a fashion shoot.

Season 1

1 sequence

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

2022NetflixCrime

Domestic surfaces filmed too closely — carpet, wallpaper, a fish tank — so ordinary rooms read as evidence before anything has happened in them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Spy × Family

2022–TV TokyoAnimation

Sixties spy-film design applied to a fake family — the parents' cover story rendered as the title sequence they would want.

Season 1

1 sequence

Tiger King

2020–2021NetflixDocumentary

Airbrushed big-cat portraiture and rhinestone lettering, executed with total sincerity — the subject's own aesthetic, borrowed wholesale.

Season 1

1 sequence

Avenue 5

2020–2022HBOComedy

A cruise-line logo in space, thirteen seconds long, with all the confidence of a company about to be sued.

Season 2

1 sequence

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

2022Disney+Comedy

A lawyer who is also a Hulk, in the one Marvel series that opens like a network sitcom and means it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mr. Queen

2020–2021tvNComedy

A modern chef's soul trapped in a Joseon queen's body, from the Chinese web series Go Princess Go.

Season 1

1 sequence

Echo

2024Disney+Sci-Fi

The Hawkeye villain given her own series and a title sequence woven out of Choctaw history.

Season 1

1 sequence

Winning Time

2022–2023HBODrama

Grainy 16mm, video tape and film stock shuffled together so the show looks like footage of the era rather than a reconstruction of it, over a disco horn line.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mary & George

2024Sky Atlantic / StarzDrama

A mother steering her son into James I's bed and the court that followed.

Season 1

1 sequence

Star Trek: Prodigy

2021–2024Nickelodeon / NetflixAnimation

Made for viewers who had never seen a Star Trek before, and it shows in the best way — the Protostar streaks through bright, candy-coloured space on a theme with more wonder in it than most of the grown-up entries.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Bodies

2023NetflixCrime

One corpse in one Whitechapel alley, found by four detectives in four different centuries.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Flight Attendant

2020–2022HBO MaxCrime

Saul Bass by way of an in-flight safety card — flat colour, cut paper and a woman falling through all of it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cunk on Earth

2022BBC TwoComedy

Philomena Cunk presenting human civilisation, opened by a ten-second parody of every documentary open ever made.

Season 1

1 sequence

Devs

2020FXSci-Fi

Alex Garland on determinism inside a quantum computing division, with two minutes of titles that behave like the machine.

Season 1

1 sequence

Twenty-Five Twenty-One

2022tvNDrama

A fencer and a reporter across the 1997 financial crisis and after.

Season 1

1 sequence

FBI: International

2021–2025CBSCrime

The franchise's Budapest-based Fly Team, covering American interests across Europe.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

2021Disney+Sci-Fi

Two supporting characters given the shield to argue over, and a title sequence built out of torn paper and news footage.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Undoing

2020HBOCrime

A child's drawing of a family, animated and slowly disassembled, over Nicole Kidman singing 'Dream a Little Dream of Me'.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bodkin

2024NetflixCrime

An Irish coastal town shot as podcast artwork — the true-crime aesthetic the series is making fun of, deployed without a wink.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

2022–Disney+Animation

The revival, which rerecorded the 2001 theme with a new cast rather than writing a new one.

Season 1

1 sequence

Vincenzo

2021tvNCrime

An Italian-Korean consigliere returning to Seoul, opened in the grammar of a mafia film.

Season 1

1 sequence

Vigil

2021–2023BBC OneCrime

A death aboard a Trident submarine, investigated by a detective who cannot leave the boat.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Afterparty

2022–2023Apple TV+Comedy

A different genre pastiche for every episode's narrator, which makes the titles the most honest summary the show could give of itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hotel Cocaine

2024MGM+Crime

The Mutiny Hotel in late-seventies Miami, and everyone who passed through its lobby.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Westies

2025MGM+Crime

The Hell's Kitchen Irish mob, opened by Digital Kitchen in the grain of 1970s New York.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hospital Playlist

2020–2021tvNDrama

Five doctors who have been friends since medical school, and a band they will not stop forming.

Season 1

1 sequence

Big Boys

2022–2025Channel 4Comedy

Jack Rooke's university comedy, which uses short animated stings rather than one fixed opening.

Season 1

1 sequence

Colin From Accounts

2022–Binge / Paramount+Comedy

An Australian comedy that begins with a hit dog and is named after him.

Season 1

1 sequence

The English

2022BBC Two / Prime VideoDrama

Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer crossing 1890 Wyoming, and — for this catalogue — the single most disruptive title in the whole project.

Season 1

1 sequence

Stargirl

2020–2022DC Universe / The CWSci-Fi

The Justice Society rebuilt by a teenager in small-town Nebraska.

Season 1

1 sequence

Prehistoric Planet

2022–2023Apple TV+Documentary

Attenborough narrating the Cretaceous as though a camera crew had been there, with a title sequence to match.

Season 1

1 sequence

Wind Breaker

2024–MBSAnimation

A delinquent school whose students defend the town rather than terrorise it.

Season 2

1 sequence

The New Pope

2020HBO / Sky AtlanticDrama

Nuns dancing in front of a neon crucifix to a house track, for two and a half minutes, entirely straight-faced. Paolo Sorrentino's sequel keeps the sequence that made the first series notorious and makes it longer.

Season 1

1 sequence

Inside Job

2021–2022NetflixAnimation

Conspiracy iconography assembled into a corporate onboarding video — every hidden-world cliché filed and badged.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dahaad

2023Prime VideoCrime

A Rajasthan sub-inspector connecting a series of deaths nobody has treated as murders.

Season 1

1 sequence

CSI: Vegas

2021–2024CBSCrime

The franchise returned to the city it started in, with two of the original cast and the same Who song.

Season 1

1 sequence

P-Valley

2020–StarzDrama

Katori Hall's Mississippi Delta strip club, opened by a sequence shot with the same neon grammar as the club itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

2020–2022NetflixAnimation

Six children on Isla Nublar during the events of the 2015 film, which nobody comes to collect.

Season 1

1 sequence

BMF

2021–StarzCrime

The Black Mafia Family out of 1980s Detroit, produced by 50 Cent.

Season 1

1 sequence

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

2023Nippon TVHorror

A man freed from an exploitative job by the zombie apocalypse, which he treats as good news.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mouse

2021tvNCrime

A patrol officer hunting a psychopath, in a series that spends its first quarter setting up a reversal.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dead Boy Detectives

2024NetflixHorror

Two dead schoolboys who refuse to move on and open a detective agency instead, out of the Sandman comics.

Season 1

1 sequence

Unorthodox

2020NetflixDrama

A young woman leaving a Satmar community in Williamsburg for Berlin.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dope Thief

2025Apple TV+Crime

Philadelphia rowhouses and police insignia, degraded until the badge and the disguise become hard to tell apart.

Season 1

1 sequence

Franklin

2024Apple TV+Drama

Eighteenth-century Paris in ink and gold leaf, assembling the diplomacy the series is about out of correspondence.

Season 1

1 sequence

Monsters at Work

2021–2024Disney+Animation

Monsters, Inc. after the switch from screams to laughter, told from the maintenance floor.

Season 1

1 sequence

Gyeongseong Creature

2023–2024NetflixHorror

Occupied Seoul in 1945, and what the occupiers are keeping in the hospital basement.

Season 1

1 sequence

Kiff

2023–Disney ChannelAnimation

An optimistic squirrel and her deadpan bunny best friend in a town that indulges neither.

Season 1

1 sequence

NCIS: Hawai'i

2021–2024CBSCrime

The first NCIS led by a woman, and eleven seconds of titles to say so.

Season 1

1 sequence

Archive 81

2022NetflixHorror

Degraded videotape and splice marks — the found footage the show is built from, doing its own titles.

Season 1

1 sequence

Guns & Gulaabs

2023NetflixCrime

A 1990s opium town played as comedy, from the Gunjan Saxena directors.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blood of Zeus

2020–NetflixAnimation

Greek vase painting animated into motion, with the title card restaged for each episode's myth.

Season 1

1 sequence

Time Bandits

2024Apple TV+Comedy

The Gilliam film as a series, made by the Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows writers.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lady in the Lake

2024Apple TV+Crime

Two women in 1960s Baltimore, one investigating and one already dead.

Season 1

1 sequence

Étoile

2025Prime VideoDrama

Two ballet companies swapping their best dancers across the Atlantic, from the Gilmore Girls writers.

Season 1

1 sequence

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

2022–2024HBO MaxHorror

The Pretty Little Liars premise remade as a slasher, with a title sequence that finally commits to the genre.

Season 1

1 sequence

Little America

2020–2022Apple TV+Drama

Half-hour films about immigrants to the United States, each based on a real person.

Season 1

1 sequence

A Gentleman in Moscow

2024Showtime / Paramount+Drama

A count sentenced to house arrest in a Moscow hotel for thirty years, from the Amor Towles novel.

Season 1

1 sequence

Run

2020HBO / Sky ComedyComedy

Two people who agreed years ago that either could send one word and the other would drop everything.

Season 1

1 sequence

Constellation

2024Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Doubled and inverted imagery over ice and orbit — two versions of the same events, laid on top of one another.

Season 1

1 sequence

Itaewon Class

2020JTBCDrama

An ex-convict opening a bar in Itaewon to ruin the company that ruined his father.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dispatches from Elsewhere

2020AMCDrama

Jason Segel's series about an alternate-reality game that may not be a game, opened in eleven seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

Flower of Evil

2020tvNCrime

A detective investigating a case that leads to her own husband's past.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Time Traveler's Wife

2022HBODrama

Steven Moffat's adaptation of the Niffenegger novel, cancelled after one season.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Uncanny Counter

2020–2023OCNSci-Fi

Demon hunters working out of a noodle restaurant.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ranking of Kings

2021–2022Fuji TVAnimation

A deaf prince who cannot lift a sword, in a picture-book style that hides how hard the series hits.

Season 2

1 sequence

The First Lady

2022ShowtimeDrama

Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama told in parallel across one season.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hellbound

2021–NetflixHorror

Twenty-five seconds of smoke and scripture, over before the dread has anywhere to settle.

Season 1

1 sequence

Shantaram

2022Apple TV+Drama

Nine seconds and a card. One of the shortest openings in the catalogue, for one of its longest-gestating adaptations.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mask Girl

2023NetflixCrime

One woman played by three actors across three decades, from the webtoon.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

2022Apple TV+Drama

Samuel L. Jackson given a drug that returns his memory for thirty days.

Season 1

1 sequence

Unicorn: Warriors Eternal

2023Adult SwimAnimation

Genndy Tartakovsky's reincarnated heroes in an alternate nineteenth century, animated on a hand-painted look.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

2021–2022Adult SwimSci-Fi

The Blade Runner world animated, set between the two films.

Season 1

1 sequence

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures

2023–Disney+Animation

The franchise's first series for preschoolers, set in the High Republic.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hamster & Gretel

2022–2024Disney ChannelAnimation

A brother and sister given superpowers, except only the hamster got them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Julia

2022–2023HBO MaxDrama

Butter, copper pans and a test kitchen — cooking shot the way the era's own television shot it, with none of the modern gloss.

Season 1

1 sequence

Barbarians

2020–2022NetflixDrama

Fifteen seconds of iron and forest — a card rather than a sequence, for a series about an ambush.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Girls5eva

2021–2024Peacock / NetflixComedy

A one-hit girl group reassembling in their forties, opened by their own hit.

Season 1

1 sequence

D.P.

2021–2023NetflixDrama

Military police chasing deserters, and the conscription system that produces them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Beyond Evil

2021JTBCCrime

Two detectives in a small town, each convinced the other is the killer.

Season 1

1 sequence

White House Plumbers

2023HBOComedy

Eleven seconds of period government typography, played as though the men behind it were competent.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Last Dance

2020ESPN / NetflixDocumentary

Archive footage cut to a hip-hop bed, treating a basketball season as a heist film.

Season 1

1 sequence

McMillions

2020HBODocumentary

The man who stole every winning piece in the McDonald's Monopoly game for twelve years.

Season 1

1 sequence

Manhunt

2024Apple TV+Drama

Period engraving and telegraph type, assembling the pursuit of Lincoln's killer out of the era's own printed matter.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Cuphead Show!

2022NetflixAnimation

The game's 1930s rubber-hose style animated properly, which is the whole point of it.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Underground Railroad

2021Prime VideoDrama

Barry Jenkins's miniseries, opened with portraiture that holds on faces long enough to become uncomfortable.

Season 1

1 sequence

The 8 Show

2024NetflixDrama

Eight contestants paid by the second in a building where the higher floors earn more.

Season 1

1 sequence

Super Pumped

2022ShowtimeDrama

The Uber story as the first season of an intended anthology about companies.

Season 1

1 sequence

Chapelwaite

2021–EpixHorror

Jerusalem's Lot filmed as a nineteenth-century gothic, from the King short story the vampire novel grew out of.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Regime

2024HBODrama

Palace portraiture and state iconography assembled into propaganda for a country that does not exist.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Franchise

2024HBOComedy

The crew of a failing superhero film, from Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes.

Season 1

1 sequence

The New Look

2024Apple TV+Drama

Couture construction shown as engineering — pattern, thread and seam assembling a silhouette, by Imaginary Forces.

Season 1

1 sequence

Helstrom

2020HuluHorror

The last of Marvel's television output before the Disney+ era swallowed it, and the only one that is a horror series.

Season 1

1 sequence

Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.

2021–2023Disney+Comedy

The Doogie premise moved to Oʻahu, with a title sequence built as a scrapbook rather than a montage.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

The Third Day

2020HBO / Sky AtlanticHorror

An island off the Essex coast with its own rules, told in two halves and a live broadcast between them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rocket Boys

2022–2023SonyLIVDrama

Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai building India's nuclear and space programmes.

Season 1

1 sequence

Death and Other Details

2024HuluCrime

A murder on an ocean liner, opened in the manner of a Saul Bass film title.

Season 1

1 sequence

How To with John Wilson

2020–2023HBODocumentary

New York filmed on the street by one man with a camera, and titles assembled from the same accidental footage the series is made of.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Man Who Fell to Earth

2022Showtime / Paramount+Sci-Fi

The Tevis novel continued rather than remade, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as a second visitor.

Season 1

1 sequence

Extrapolations

2023Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Climate data drawn as landscape — thirty-five seconds of a graph becoming a coastline.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rabbit Hole

2023Paramount+Drama

Kiefer Sutherland as a corporate spy framed for murder, opened in sixteen seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Devil Judge

2021tvNDrama

A televised trial system in a near-future Korea, run by a judge with his own plan for it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Grimsburg

2024–FoxAnimation

Jon Hamm as a detective in a town where every case is someone he knows.

Season 2

1 sequence

Fatal Attraction

2023Paramount+Drama

The 1987 film reworked as a series that takes the other side of the story seriously.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Baby-Sitters Club

2020–2021NetflixComedy

The Ann M. Martin books adapted with a hand-lettered, sticker-book title sequence.

Season 1

1 sequence

ZeroZeroZero

2020Sky Atlantic / AmazonCrime

One cocaine shipment followed from Monterrey to Calabria, scored throughout by Mogwai.

Season 1

1 sequence

Parasyte: The Grey

2024NetflixHorror

The Iwaaki manga relocated to Korea, running alongside the Japanese continuity rather than remaking it.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Apothecary Diaries

2023–Tokyo MXAnimation

A poison expert conscripted into the imperial rear palace, solving what everyone else is covering up.

Season 1

1 sequence

We Are Who We Are

2020HBO / Sky AtlanticDrama

Luca Guadagnino's only television series, on an American army base in Veneto, opened in ten seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Ghost and Molly McGee

2021–2023Disney ChannelAnimation

A relentlessly positive girl and the ghost whose curse bound him to her.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Vow

2020–2022HBODocumentary

NXIVM told largely through footage its own members shot while they were still inside it.

Season 1

1 sequence

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

2020HBODocumentary

Michelle McNamara's search for the Golden State Killer, finished by other people after she died.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dandadan

2024–Tokyo MXAnimation

Aliens and ghosts arguing over the same two teenagers, opened by Creepy Nuts at a sprint.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hailey's On It!

2023–2024Disney ChannelAnimation

A girl with a list of every thing she is afraid of and a deadline to do all of them.

Season 1

1 sequence

George & Tammy

2022ShowtimeDrama

George Jones and Tammy Wynette, with both leads singing their own recordings.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cheer

2020–2022NetflixDocumentary

A Texas junior college cheerleading squad, filmed as a sport rather than as a sideline to one.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse

2020–2023Disney+Animation

The Paul Rudish shorts continued, drawn in the 1930s line and paced like it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Brave New World

2020PeacockSci-Fi

Huxley adapted as Peacock's flagship launch drama, cancelled after one season.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hello Tomorrow!

2023Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Timeshare salesmen selling lunar property in a retrofuturist America that never happened.

Season 1

1 sequence

Smother

2021–2023RTÉ One / BBCDrama

A death on a Clare beach and the family who all have a reason to have wanted it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

2022–2024Apple TV+Comedy

The Henson revival, which rebuilds the 1983 theme shot for shot with new puppets.

Season 1

1 sequence

Before

2024Apple TV+Horror

Billy Crystal as a child psychiatrist and a boy who knows things he should not.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sunny

2024Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Domestic robotics rendered as cheerful product design, in exactly the register that makes a helpful machine frightening.

Season 1

1 sequence

Who Killed Sara?

2021–2022NetflixCrime

Photographs, parachute rigging and water — the single incident the whole series circles, restaged in the titles every season.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

Young Wallander

2020–2022Netflix (Sweden)Crime

Kurt Wallander as a rookie in present-day Malmö, made in English rather than Swedish.

Season 1

1 sequence

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

2023Paramount+Drama

The Pink Ladies four years before the film, cancelled after one season.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Woods

2020NetflixCrime

Harlan Coben adapted into Polish, with a prosecutor reopening the summer camp his sister vanished from.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blood & Water

2020–2023NetflixDrama

A Cape Town teenager who believes a swimming champion at her new school is the sister abducted at birth.

Season 2

1 sequence

HouseBroken

2021–2023FoxAnimation

A group-therapy circle of neighbourhood pets, run by a poodle who is not qualified.

Season 1

1 sequence

Teenage Euthanasia

2021–2023Adult SwimAnimation

A Florida funeral home, and a mother resurrected by embalming fluid.

Season 1

1 sequence

October Faction

2020NetflixHorror

Two monster hunters whose teenage children do not know what the family business is.

Season 1

1 sequence

City on Fire

2023Apple TV+Crime

New York in the year of the blackout, burning at the edges of the frame — another Imaginary Forces main title, and a much colder one.

Season 1

1 sequence

Caliphate

2020SVT1Drama

A Stockholm schoolgirl recruited online, and the officer who cannot get anyone to listen. Swedish title Kalifat.

Season 1

1 sequence

Tribes of Europa

2021Netflix (Germany)Sci-Fi

Europe broken into warring tribes after a global blackout, opened in eleven seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

Too Close

2021ITVDrama

A forensic psychiatrist and the patient who will not stay on her side of the table.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dead Ringers

2023Prime VideoHorror

The Cronenberg film remade with Rachel Weisz as both twins.

Season 1

1 sequence

Snabba Cash

2021–2022NetflixCrime

The Stockholm crime films continued as a series, following the money rather than the men.

Season 2

1 sequence

Control Z

2020–2022NetflixDrama

A Mexican school where a hacker exposes every student's secrets, opened in nine seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

2020tvNDrama

A psychiatric carer and a children's author, told through illustrated fairy tales between episodes.

Season 1

1 sequence

Biohackers

2020–2021NetflixSci-Fi

A German medical student who chose her university for the professor she intends to expose.

Season 1

1 sequence

Moonbase 8

2020ShowtimeComedy

Three astronauts in an Arizona simulator, none of whom will ever go to the moon.

Season 1

1 sequence

It's Pony

2020–2022NickelodeonAnimation

A girl whose pony lives in the house and is not remotely house-trained in any sense.

Season 1

1 sequence

Chip 'n' Dale: Park Life

2021–2024Disney+Animation

The chipmunks in a city park, dialogue-free, animated in France.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Fungies!

2020–2021Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation

A mushroom child scientist in a prehistoric fungal town.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bom Dia, Verônica

2020–2024NetflixCrime

A São Paulo police clerk who starts investigating a case nobody assigned her.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cigarette Girl

2023NetflixDrama

The Indonesian kretek industry in the 1960s, and a woman who is not allowed near the part of it she is best at. Original title Gadis Kretek.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bocchi the Rock!

2022Tokyo MXAnimation

A guitarist too anxious to speak to her own band, animated with more formal invention than almost anything else in its year.

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Oktoberfest 1900

2020ARDDrama

A Nuremberg brewer trying to force his way into Munich's festival, and the family he spends to do it.

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9-1-1: Nashville

2025–ABCDrama

The third 9-1-1, moving the format to Tennessee, with the franchise's siren-and-dispatch open rebuilt in country.

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Ahsoka

2023–Disney+Sci-Fi

The animated character brought into live action, in the branch of the franchise that assumes you watched the cartoons.

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Alien: Earth

2025FXSci-Fi

Noah Hawley's Alien series, whose titles rebuild the slow-assembling wordmark of the 1979 film for television.

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All Creatures Great & Small

2020–Channel 5 / PBSDrama

The Yorkshire vet stories remade, with a title sequence that is largely just the Dales.

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Amandaland

2025–BBC OneComedy

The Motherland spin-off, following the one character everybody else in it could not stand.

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Animal Control

2023–FoxComedy

Municipal animal control officers, in the only workplace sitcom where the supporting cast bites.

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The Artful Dodger

2023–Disney+Drama

Dickens's pickpocket grown up into a surgeon in colonial Australia, and still stealing on the side.

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Behind Her Eyes

2021NetflixDrama

A secretary having an affair with her employer and befriending his wife, in a thriller with an ending people argued about for weeks.

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Bergerac (2025)

2025–U&DramaCrime

Jersey's detective revived forty-four years after the BBC original, with the island doing the same work it always did.

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Beyond Paradise

2023–BBC One / BritBoxCrime

Death in Paradise's detective moved to Devon, where the weather is the joke.

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Bloodhounds

2023–2026NetflixCrime

Two young boxers working off a debt for a Seoul loan shark, and trying to stop.

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The Book of Boba Fett

2021–2022Disney+Sci-Fi

The bounty hunter taking over a crime syndicate, in a spin-off that hands two of its seven episodes back to The Mandalorian.

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Boots

2025NetflixDrama

A closeted teenager enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1990, from Greg Cope White's memoir.

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Boston Blue

2025–CBSCrime

The Blue Bloods spin-off, moving a Reagan to Boston and a different police family's dinner table.

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Chad Powers

2025–HuluComedy

A disgraced quarterback who returns to college football in prosthetics under an assumed name.

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The Cleaning Lady

2022–2025FoxCrime

A Filipino doctor in Las Vegas cleaning for organised crime to pay for her son's treatment.

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The Couple Next Door

2023–Channel 4 / StarzDrama

Two couples in a Leeds cul-de-sac, and what starts once one of them looks over the fence.

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Cowboy Bebop (2021)

2021NetflixSci-Fi

A live-action restaging of one of the most admired title sequences in animation, shot-for-shot against Yoko Kanno's original arrangement.

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The Crowded Room

2023Apple TV+Drama

Tom Holland in a 1979 case built on the Billy Milligan story.

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Cruel Summer

2021–2023FreeformDrama

Two girls, three summers and one accusation, told from both sides at once and cut between them.

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Culinary Class Wars

2024–NetflixDocumentary

A hundred anonymous Korean chefs cooking against twenty famous ones, the unknown half dressed in black throughout.

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The Cursed

2020tvNHorror

A girl who can kill by curse and the reporter who decides to use her.

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Defending Jacob

2020Apple TV+Crime

New England woods and suburban windows, filmed at the distance a parent stands from a child they no longer recognise.

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Down Cemetery Road

2025–Apple TV+Crime

Mick Herron before Slough House: a missing girl and an accountant who will not stop looking for her.

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Extracurricular

2020NetflixCrime

A model student funding his own tuition by running a criminal enterprise after school.

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The Fall of the House of Usher

2023NetflixHorror

Corporate portraiture rotting in place — a pharmaceutical dynasty photographed like old money and left to decay in frame.

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Five Days at Memorial

2022Apple TV+Drama

A New Orleans hospital across the five days after Katrina, and the decisions taken inside it.

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Full Circle

2023HBO MaxCrime

New York cut into overlapping fragments, so that separate lives keep occupying the same frame before the plot connects them.

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Ginny & Georgia

2021–NetflixDrama

A mother of thirty and a daughter of fifteen, and the fifteen years between them nobody will explain.

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

2024–BBC iPlayerCrime

A sixth-former who reopens a closed murder case as her school project and will not put it down.

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The Good Lord Bird

2020ShowtimeDrama

John Brown's raid told by a boy he mistakes for a girl, opened in the idiom of a nineteenth-century woodcut.

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The Great

2020–2023HuluComedy

Catherine's rise told as farce, and billed on screen as an occasionally true story.

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Hawkeye

2021Disney+Sci-Fi

A Christmas series about the Avenger with no powers, opening on a wall of comic-panel artwork.

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Heated Rivalry

2025–CraveDrama

Two rival ice hockey players who spend a decade hiding what is between them, from Rachel Reid's novel.

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High Potential

2024–ABCCrime

A cleaner with an exceptional mind who starts solving the cases in the files she is dusting.

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The Hunting Wives

2025–NetflixDrama

A Massachusetts family relocated to east Texas, and the shooting club the wife falls in with.

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Irma Vep

2022HBODrama

Olivier Assayas remaking his own film as a series about remaking a film, with silent-era titles to match.

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Island

2022–2023TVINGSci-Fi

Jeju as the ground of a long fight between demons and the people bound to stop them.

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It: Welcome to Derry

2025HBOHorror

The King adaptation's prequel series, set in the 1960s cycle.

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Kamikaze

2021HBO MaxDrama

A Danish teenager who survives the plane crash that kills her family and spends her inheritance trying not to feel it.

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The Lincoln Lawyer

2022–NetflixCrime

Connelly's defence attorney working out of the back seat of a car, brought to television a decade after the film.

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Little Fires Everywhere

2020HuluDrama

Two mothers in a planned Ohio suburb, and the house that is already burning down in the first scene.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

2022–Prime VideoDrama

Sand and iron filings moving into Chladni patterns under sound — a title sequence built by playing music at a physical surface rather than animating it.

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Maestra: Strings of Truth

2023–2024tvNDrama

A conductor holding an orchestra together while the deaths around it accumulate.

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Masters of the Universe: Revelation

2021NetflixAnimation

Kevin Smith's continuation of the 1983 series, opened in the same fanfare it inherited.

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Midnight Mass

2021NetflixHorror

Crockett Island in grey water and grey weather, with a church at the centre of it and nothing yet visibly wrong.

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Miss Scarlet and The Duke

2020–Alibi / PBSCrime

A woman who inherits her father's detective agency in Victorian London and declines to sell it.

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

2023–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Field notes, redacted files and creature silhouettes — a monster show introduced entirely through paperwork.

Season 2

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Moon Knight

2022Disney+Sci-Fi

A man with dissociative identity disorder and an Egyptian god sharing him, with titles that split down the middle to match.

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Mrs. America

2020FX on HuluDrama

The fight over the Equal Rights Amendment, opened by period graphic design doing the arguing.

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Ms. Marvel

2022Disney+Sci-Fi

A Jersey City teenager who is a fan of the Avengers before she is one, in nine seconds of animated marker pen.

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My Liberation Notes

2022JTBCDrama

Three siblings commuting out of the suburbs, in a series largely about wanting to be somewhere else.

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My Roommate Is a Gumiho

2021tvNComedy

A nine-tailed fox nine hundred years from becoming human, sharing a flat with the student who swallowed his bead.

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One Piece (2023)

2023–NetflixDrama

The live-action adaptation builds its opening from the crew's own belongings — maps, hats, weapons — rather than restaging the anime's.

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The Outsider

2020HBOHorror

Twenty seconds of smeared, doubled imagery — a face that will not resolve into one face, which is the entire mystery stated up front.

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The Paper

2025–PeacockComedy

The Office's documentary crew turning up at a dying Ohio newspaper, twelve years after they left Scranton.

Season 1

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2023–Disney+Sci-Fi

The novels adapted with their author involved, and titles that run at the end of the episode rather than the start.

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Perry Mason

2020–2023HBOCrime

Depression-era Los Angeles rendered in ink and light leaks, over in twenty-one seconds — a deliberately curt opening for a show about a very slow investigation.

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The Pitt

2025–HBO MaxDrama

A deliberate homage to ER's titles — the same rhythm, the same institutional blue — for a series that runs one shift in real time.

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The Plot Against America

2020HBODrama

David Simon's Roth adaptation, opened by American stamps and postmarks turning quietly wrong.

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Power Book III: Raising Kanan

2021–2026StarzCrime

The Power universe wound back to 1991 Queens, following the character the first series had already killed.

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Power Rangers Cosmic Fury

2023NetflixSci-Fi

The thirtieth season, and the first made for streaming rather than a children's channel.

Season 1

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Power Rangers Dino Fury

2021–2022NickelodeonSci-Fi

Dinosaur rangers again, sixteen years on, with the first deaf ranger in the franchise.

Season 1

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Record of Youth

2020tvNDrama

A model trying to become an actor before his military service, against everyone's advice.

Season 1

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The Red River

2021–2023OPENDrama

A Greek period drama on the Asia Minor catastrophe and the generation displaced by it. Original title Το κόκκινο ποτάμι.

Season 2

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The Sandman

2022–2025NetflixDrama

Seventeen seconds of sand and a card. For a series adapted from a comic famous for its lettering, the titles are almost aggressively plain.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story

2020SonyLIVCrime

The Bombay securities scandal, and one of the most imitated Indian title sequences of the streaming era.

Season 1

1 sequence

Secret Invasion

2023Disney+Sci-Fi

The first main-title sequence a major studio made with generative AI, and the argument about it drowned out the series underneath.

Season 1

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The Sex Lives of College Girls

2021–2022HBO MaxComedy

Four roommates at a Vermont university, from Mindy Kaling, who has made this arrangement work before.

Season 1

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Solo Leveling

2024–Tokyo MXAnimation

Hiroyuki Sawano scoring a power fantasy at exactly the scale it wants to be taken at.

Season 1

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Sonic Prime

2022–2024NetflixAnimation

A shattered multiverse of Sonics, opened in twelve seconds.

Season 1

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St. Denis Medical

2024–NBCComedy

A short-staffed Oregon hospital, filmed as though a documentary crew had turned up and stayed.

Season 1

1 sequence

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

2024–2025Disney+Sci-Fi

Four children lost in the galaxy, played as an eighties Amblin adventure.

Season 1

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Station Eleven

2021HBOSci-Fi

Hand-drawn comic panels from the book within the book, animated just enough to move — the artefact the survivors carry, doing the introducing.

Season 1

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Stick

2025–Apple TV+Comedy

A washed-up golfer coaching a teenager, and one of the few 2025 series whose service posted its own titles.

Season 1

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Sullivan's Crossing

2023–CTVDrama

A neurosurgeon who goes back to her father's campground in Nova Scotia and stays.

Season 1

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Sweet Magnolias

2020–NetflixDrama

Three friends in a small South Carolina town, adapted from Sherryl Woods's novels.

Seasons 1–2

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The Sympathizer

2024HBODrama

Propaganda poster art, film leader and Saigon footage cut together so that the two sides' imagery becomes one reel — which is the narrator's problem exactly.