Crime · 2020s
The 2020s account for 81 of the 337 crime shows here, and 81 opening sequences.
Netflix carries the most, with 17.
81 shows81 sequences
1 sequence
Dexter: Resurrection
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
Daredevil: Born Again
The revival, which rebuilds the Netflix series' red-liquid city rather than replacing it.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Dark Winds
Tony Hillerman's Navajo Tribal Police novels, opened across the same high desert the cases cross.
- Season 1
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Dept. Q
Edinburgh stone and basement strip-lighting — a cold-case unit introduced by the room it was exiled to.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Reacher
Lee Child's drifter, adapted at the scale the books describe rather than the one previous adaptations settled for.
- Season 1
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Mare of Easttown
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
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Cross
James Patterson's Alex Cross novels, with a second-season sequence rebuilt from scratch.
- Season 2
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The Penguin
A flooded, ruined Gotham shot like a crime photograph — standing water, wet brick, no heroics anywhere in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceElsbeth
The Good Wife's oddest lawyer given a Columbo format of her own, and nine seconds to introduce it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Residence
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 sequenceThe Last Thing He Told Me
A houseboat, a marina and water — a disappearance introduced by the place the missing man left behind.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlack Bird
Prison corridors and Midwestern fields intercut, so the confinement and the killing ground read as one landscape.
- Season 1
1 sequencePoker Face
Seventies title design executed exactly, for a case-of-the-week mystery deliberately built on the Columbo model.
- Season 1
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Task
An FBI task force in the Philadelphia suburbs, from the writer of Mare of Easttown.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLove & Death
Suburban Texas in the early eighties — lawns, church halls and kitchen counters filmed with the flatness of a case file.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDexter: Original Sin
The prequel, which restages the breakfast routine of the original's titles for a younger version of the same man.
- Season 1
1 sequencePresumed Innocent
Evidence photographs and courtroom stone, shot cold enough that guilt and innocence look identical.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSugar
Classic Hollywood noir imagery cut against modern Los Angeles — a detective series that keeps quoting the films it is standing inside.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Staircase
The dramatisation of the Michael Peterson case, made about the documentary crew as much as the trial.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNCIS: Origins
Gibbs in 1991, twenty-one years before the parent series began.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTaxi Driver
A taxi company that takes revenge on behalf of crime victims, from the webtoon.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFool Me Once
A widow who sees her dead husband on a nanny camera, from the Harlan Coben deal.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSmoke
Fire filmed close enough to lose its shape — an arson series whose titles are almost entirely texture.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Perfect Couple
The cast dancing on a Nantucket lawn in wedding clothes, entirely straight-faced — a tonal misdirection the series never repeats.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGangs of London
A London crime empire after its head is killed, directed with the fight choreography of a feature.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNCIS: Sydney
The first NCIS made outside America, with an Australian and American team sharing a desk.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLaw & Order: Organized Crime
Stabler brought back a decade after leaving Special Victims Unit, into a serialised format the franchise had never used.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFarzi
A struggling artist forging banknotes well enough to destabilise the currency.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHightown
A fisheries agent in Provincetown pulled into an overdose investigation she should not be near.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBerlin
The Money Heist prequel, giving the character who died in the second season a heist of his own.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFBI: Most Wanted
The first FBI spin-off, following the fugitive task force, in nine seconds of title card.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWe Own This City
Baltimore again, from the makers of The Wire, but shot as surveillance and body-camera footage rather than drama.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBad Monkey
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 sequenceTokyo Vice
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 sequenceThe Continental: From the World of John Wick
The hotel's origin in 1970s New York, three episodes long.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMonster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
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 sequenceBodies
One corpse in one Whitechapel alley, found by four detectives in four different centuries.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Flight Attendant
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 sequenceFBI: International
The franchise's Budapest-based Fly Team, covering American interests across Europe.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Undoing
A child's drawing of a family, animated and slowly disassembled, over Nicole Kidman singing 'Dream a Little Dream of Me'.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBodkin
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 sequenceVincenzo
An Italian-Korean consigliere returning to Seoul, opened in the grammar of a mafia film.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVigil
A death aboard a Trident submarine, investigated by a detective who cannot leave the boat.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHotel Cocaine
The Mutiny Hotel in late-seventies Miami, and everyone who passed through its lobby.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Westies
The Hell's Kitchen Irish mob, opened by Digital Kitchen in the grain of 1970s New York.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDahaad
A Rajasthan sub-inspector connecting a series of deaths nobody has treated as murders.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCSI: Vegas
The franchise returned to the city it started in, with two of the original cast and the same Who song.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBMF
The Black Mafia Family out of 1980s Detroit, produced by 50 Cent.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMouse
A patrol officer hunting a psychopath, in a series that spends its first quarter setting up a reversal.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDope Thief
Philadelphia rowhouses and police insignia, degraded until the badge and the disguise become hard to tell apart.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNCIS: Hawai'i
The first NCIS led by a woman, and eleven seconds of titles to say so.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGuns & Gulaabs
A 1990s opium town played as comedy, from the Gunjan Saxena directors.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLady in the Lake
Two women in 1960s Baltimore, one investigating and one already dead.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFlower of Evil
A detective investigating a case that leads to her own husband's past.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMask Girl
One woman played by three actors across three decades, from the webtoon.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBeyond Evil
Two detectives in a small town, each convinced the other is the killer.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDeath and Other Details
A murder on an ocean liner, opened in the manner of a Saul Bass film title.
- Season 1
1 sequenceZeroZeroZero
One cocaine shipment followed from Monterrey to Calabria, scored throughout by Mogwai.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWho Killed Sara?
Photographs, parachute rigging and water — the single incident the whole series circles, restaged in the titles every season.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceYoung Wallander
Kurt Wallander as a rookie in present-day Malmö, made in English rather than Swedish.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Woods
Harlan Coben adapted into Polish, with a prosecutor reopening the summer camp his sister vanished from.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCity on Fire
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 sequenceSnabba Cash
The Stockholm crime films continued as a series, following the money rather than the men.
- Season 2
1 sequenceBom Dia, Verônica
A São Paulo police clerk who starts investigating a case nobody assigned her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBergerac (2025)
Jersey's detective revived forty-four years after the BBC original, with the island doing the same work it always did.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBeyond Paradise
Death in Paradise's detective moved to Devon, where the weather is the joke.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBloodhounds
Two young boxers working off a debt for a Seoul loan shark, and trying to stop.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBoston Blue
The Blue Bloods spin-off, moving a Reagan to Boston and a different police family's dinner table.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Cleaning Lady
A Filipino doctor in Las Vegas cleaning for organised crime to pay for her son's treatment.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDefending Jacob
New England woods and suburban windows, filmed at the distance a parent stands from a child they no longer recognise.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDown Cemetery Road
Mick Herron before Slough House: a missing girl and an accountant who will not stop looking for her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceExtracurricular
A model student funding his own tuition by running a criminal enterprise after school.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFull Circle
New York cut into overlapping fragments, so that separate lives keep occupying the same frame before the plot connects them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Good Girl's Guide to Murder
A sixth-former who reopens a closed murder case as her school project and will not put it down.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHigh Potential
A cleaner with an exceptional mind who starts solving the cases in the files she is dusting.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Lincoln Lawyer
Connelly's defence attorney working out of the back seat of a car, brought to television a decade after the film.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiss Scarlet and The Duke
A woman who inherits her father's detective agency in Victorian London and declines to sell it.
- Season 1
1 sequencePerry Mason
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.
- Season 1
1 sequencePower Book III: Raising Kanan
The Power universe wound back to 1991 Queens, following the character the first series had already killed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceScam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
The Bombay securities scandal, and one of the most imitated Indian title sequences of the streaming era.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnder the Banner of Heaven
A Utah detective losing his own faith while investigating a killing committed inside it.
- Season 1