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Drama · 2010s

The 2010s account for 208 of the 575 drama shows here, and 221 opening sequences.

No decade here has more drama openings than this one.

Netflix carries the most, with 24.

208 shows221 sequences

Still from the opening titles of Euphoria2 sequences

Euphoria

2019–HBODrama

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
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The Boys

2019–Prime VideoDrama

Superhero iconography rendered as corporate branding and then defaced — the show's whole argument, done in graphics.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Night Manager1 sequence

The Night Manager

2016–2025BBC One / AMCDrama

Le Carré's arms dealer and the hotelier sent in after him, opened by weapons assembling out of luxury.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Game of Thrones2 sequences

Game of Thrones

2011–2019HBODrama

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
Still from the opening titles of Yellowstone1 sequence

Yellowstone

2018–2024Paramount NetworkDrama

Montana filmed as a land claim — cattle, mountains and fence line, with the ranch's brand doing the title card.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Witcher3 sequences

The Witcher

2019–NetflixDrama

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
Still from the opening titles of The Handmaid's Tale1 sequence

The Handmaid's Tale

2017–2025HuluDrama

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
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Outlander

2014–StarzDrama

'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
Still from the opening titles of Homeland3 sequences

Homeland

2011–2020ShowtimeDrama

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
Still from the opening titles of Downton Abbey1 sequence

Downton Abbey

2010–2015ITVDrama

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
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The Morning Show

2019–Apple TV+Drama

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
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The Family Man

2019–Prime VideoDrama

A middle-class Mumbai father who is also a National Investigation Agency officer, and cannot tell his family either job is real.

  • Season 3
Still from the opening titles of Succession3 sequences

Succession

2018–2023HBODrama

Home video of rich children, degraded and half-legible, cut against helicopter shots of towers they will inherit. Nicholas Britell's piano stumbles deliberately, like something played badly on purpose.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
  • Season 3
Still from the opening titles of Suits1 sequence

Suits

2011–2019USA NetworkDrama

Tailoring, cufflinks and Manhattan glass over Ima Robot's 'Greenback Boogie' — a law firm sold entirely on wardrobe.

  • Season 1
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Chernobyl

2019HBODrama

No montage and no metaphor — the camera simply moves through the plant's corridors and control rooms while Hildur Guðnadóttir's score, built from recordings made inside a power station, does the rest.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Good Doctor1 sequence

The Good Doctor

2017–2024ABCDrama

An autistic surgical resident, adapted from the Korean series of the same name.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Crown1 sequence

The Crown

2016–2023NetflixDrama

Molten gold pouring, cooling and assembling itself into a crown, over Hans Zimmer. No faces and no footage — the object outlasts everyone who wears it, which is the show's entire argument.

  • Seasons 1–6
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Jack Ryan

2018–2023Prime VideoDrama

Satellite imagery, intercepted signals and maps — an analyst's view of the world rather than a field agent's.

  • Season 2
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The Americans

2013–2018FXDrama

Soviet and American iconography intercut until they mirror each other exactly — the show's entire thesis in twenty-six seconds.

  • Season 1
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Spartacus

2010–2013StarzDrama

Starz's gladiator series, and one of the last major shows to use blood as a graphic element in its titles.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Chicago Fire1 sequence

Chicago Fire

2012–NBCDrama

The first of Dick Wolf's Chicago series, and the one the other two were built out from.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Leftovers3 sequences

The Leftovers

2014–2017HBODrama

The rare show that threw out a perfectly good title sequence and replaced it with its opposite. One season of grief painted as a Renaissance ceiling, then a complete reversal into snapshots and a country song.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
  • Season 3
Still from the opening titles of Call the Midwife1 sequence

Call the Midwife

2012–BBC OneDrama

Poplar's district nurses through the fifties and sixties, opened the same way for well over a decade.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Big Little Lies1 sequence

Big Little Lies

2017–2019HBODrama

The school run, filmed like a threat. Mothers driving the coast road to Monterey with children in the back seat, over Michael Kiwanuka's 'Cold Little Heart'.

  • Season 1
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Lucifer

2016–2021Fox / NetflixDrama

Eleven seconds and a card, from a procedural that would rather get to the case.

  • Season 1
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This Is Us

2016–2022NBCDrama

A family photograph and a card, over in nine seconds — restraint from a show that is otherwise not remotely restrained.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Once Upon a Time1 sequence

Once Upon a Time

2011–2018ABCDrama

A card hidden inside the episode's own imagery — the title appears somewhere in the opening scene rather than over a sequence, in a different place every week.

  • Season 1
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The Last Kingdom

2015–2022BBC America / NetflixDrama

Earth, ash and iron assembling into a map of a divided England, with the borders shifting as the seasons go on.

  • Season 1
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Vikings

2013–2020HistoryDrama

Bodies sinking through water over Fever Ray's 'If I Had a Heart' — a history-channel drama with a title sequence better than its remit.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Scandal1 sequence

Scandal

2012–2018ABCDrama

Shonda Rhimes's Washington fixer series, and the show that made the phrase 'it's handled' a network brand.

  • Season 1
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Mr. Robot

2015–2019USA NetworkDrama

There is no title sequence. There is a card, and the card is the whole design — which makes this the rare show whose opening is defined by what it refuses to do.

  • Seasons 1–4
Still from the opening titles of Cobra Kai1 sequence

Cobra Kai

2018–2025YouTube Red / NetflixDrama

The Karate Kid continued forty years on, with a title card that has been restaged in several different styles across the run.

  • Season 1
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House of Cards

2013–2018NetflixDrama

Washington in time-lapse, shot at dusk and left to run — monuments, traffic and cloud moving over a city where nothing visibly happens. Jeff Beal's theme does the menace.

  • Seasons 1–6
Still from the opening titles of Orange Is the New Black1 sequence

Orange Is the New Black

2013–2019NetflixDrama

Extreme close-ups of real formerly incarcerated women's faces — eyes, mouths, tattoos — cut to Regina Spektor. Not one of them is a cast member, which is the point.

  • Seasons 1–7
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Billions

2016–2023ShowtimeDrama

Manhattan money photographed like weather — glass, helicopters and trading floors, with no people in any of it.

  • Season 1
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The Affair

2014–2019ShowtimeDrama

Fiona Apple's 'Container' over water and doubled imagery — two accounts of the same events, said in pictures before the show says it in structure.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Why Women Kill1 sequence

Why Women Kill

2019–2021CBS All Access / Paramount+Drama

Marc Cherry's anthology, three eras in the same house in the first season.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Goliath1 sequence

Goliath

2016–2021Prime VideoDrama

Billy Bob Thornton as a lawyer working out of a Santa Monica bar.

  • Season 1
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Chicago Med

2015–NBCDrama

The third Chicago series, sharing a city and a crossover schedule with the other two.

  • Season 1
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Victoria

2016–2019ITVDrama

The young queen's first years, opened by a jewelled monogram assembling itself.

  • Season 1
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Riverdale

2017–2023The CWDrama

Archie comics restaged as neon-lit noir, with the town's diner shot like a crime scene.

  • Season 1
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The Last Ship

2014–2018TNTDrama

A destroyer at sea when a pandemic takes the rest of the world.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Crash Landing on You1 sequence

Crash Landing on You

2019–2020tvNDrama

A South Korean heiress paraglides into North Korea, and the opening treats the border as scenery rather than politics.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Arrow1 sequence

Arrow

2012–2020The CWDrama

A narrated premise delivered every week in the first person, which the entire subsequent CW superhero slate copied verbatim.

  • Season 1
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The Pacific

2010HBODrama

The companion piece to Band of Brothers, with charcoal drawings taking the place of the pencil sketches and Hans Zimmer taking the place of Michael Kamen.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Watchmen1 sequence

Watchmen

2019HBODrama

Damon Lindelof's sequel to the comic, scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and the hardest entry in this catalogue to find footage of.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Good Fight1 sequence

The Good Fight

2017–2022CBS All Access / Paramount+Drama

Office furniture, law books and televisions exploding in slow motion, one after another, to an orchestral swell — a legal drama blowing up its own set every week.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of American Gods1 sequence

American Gods

2017–2021StarzDrama

A totem pole of clashing worship — neon crosses, satellite dishes, astronauts and idols stacked into one object, which is the novel's argument compressed into ninety seconds.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Newsroom1 sequence

The Newsroom

2012–2014HBODrama

Broadcast news history as a procession of anchors, presses and control rooms, scored by Thomas Newman with more reverence than the show it introduces ever quite earns.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Titans1 sequence

Titans

2018–2023DC Universe / HBO MaxDrama

Thirteen seconds and a card, in the register of a comic that would prefer you did not call it a comic.

  • Season 1
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Revenge

2011–2015ABCDrama

The Count of Monte Cristo relocated to the Hamptons.

  • Season 1
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Black Sails

2014–2017StarzDrama

Carved wood and bone — ships, skulls and rigging rendered as scrimshaw, animated as though the carving were happening as you watch.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Chi1 sequence

The Chi

2018–ShowtimeDrama

Lena Waithe's South Side, following several lives that keep intersecting.

  • Seasons 1–3
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Pose

2018–2021FXDrama

Ballroom culture rendered in gold and satin, with the house names given the billing a network usually reserves for stars.

  • Season 1
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Modern Love

2019–2021Prime VideoDrama

The New York Times column adapted an essay per episode.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of When Calls the Heart1 sequence

When Calls the Heart

2014–Hallmark ChannelDrama

A city teacher posted to a frontier coal town, and the longest-running scripted series Hallmark has made.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Young Pope1 sequence

The Young Pope

2016HBO / Sky AtlanticDrama

Paolo Sorrentino's American pope, opened by a walk past papal portraits that come apart as he passes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Son1 sequence

The Son

2017–2019AMCDrama

Pierce Brosnan across two Texas timelines, from the Philipp Meyer novel.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Turn: Washington's Spies1 sequence

Turn: Washington's Spies

2014–2017AMCDrama

Invisible ink, cipher keys and folded letters — a spy series introduced entirely through its tradecraft.

  • Seasons 1–4
Still from the opening titles of Fauda1 sequence

Fauda

2015–Yes / NetflixDrama

An Israeli undercover unit and the Palestinian militants it pursues, played from both sides.

  • Season 1
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Masters of Sex

2013–2016ShowtimeDrama

Masters and Johnson's research, opened by a sequence of double meanings built out of 1950s stock footage.

  • Season 1
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Warrior

2019–2023Cinemax / HBO MaxDrama

Ink-brush figures fighting across parchment, for a series built from a Bruce Lee treatment that took fifty years to reach air.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Borgias1 sequence

The Borgias

2011–2013ShowtimeDrama

Neil Jordan's Renaissance papacy, opened in gilt and shadow.

  • Season 1
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The Deuce

2017–2019HBODrama

Forty-second Street as a marquee — neon, peep-show signage and the traffic of a block being monetised, assembled from the era's own advertising.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of New Amsterdam1 sequence

New Amsterdam

2018–2023NBCDrama

A public hospital run by a director who keeps asking how he can help.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of All American1 sequence

All American

2018–2025The CWDrama

A South Los Angeles footballer recruited to a Beverly Hills school, from Spencer Paysinger's life.

  • Season 1
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The White Queen

2013Starz / BBC OneDrama

Roses, water and heraldry — the Wars of the Roses introduced through the emblems both sides died for.

  • Season 1
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Elite

2018–2024NetflixDrama

Eleven seconds of school crest and bass drop. The shortest opening on this site that still manages to be about class.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Reply 19881 sequence

Reply 1988

2015–2016tvNDrama

Five families in one Seoul alley in 1988, and the most loved of the Reply series.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Halt and Catch Fire1 sequence

Halt and Catch Fire

2014–2017AMCDrama

Elastic's red glitch: a screen tearing itself apart while the cast names surface out of the wreckage, over a Paul Haslinger synth line. Thirty seconds, and almost nothing in it is legible for more than a frame.

  • Seasons 1–4
Still from the opening titles of Hell on Wheels1 sequence

Hell on Wheels

2011–2016AMCDrama

Iron, sleepers and surveyor's tools — the transcontinental railroad introduced as labour rather than achievement.

  • Season 1
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Iron Fist

2017–2018NetflixDrama

The last of the four Defenders series, and the one that completes the set here.

  • Season 1
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Godless

2017NetflixDrama

The frontier shot as landscape photography and left to sit — no montage, no faces, just weather crossing New Mexico for over a minute.

  • Season 1
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Pennyworth

2019–2022Epix / HBO MaxDrama

Alfred as a young SAS veteran in an alternative 1960s London, which is a stranger idea than the Batman it leads to.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Preacher1 sequence

Preacher

2016–2019AMCDrama

The Ennis and Dillon comic adapted with its worst instincts intact.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Spanish Princess1 sequence

The Spanish Princess

2019–2020StarzDrama

Catherine of Aragon's arrival in England, third in the same Philippa Gregory sequence.

  • Season 1
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Carnival Row

2019–2023Prime VideoDrama

Victorian illustration of wings, horns and hooves, catalogued like a natural history plate of a population being policed.

  • Season 1
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Made in Heaven

2019–2023Prime VideoDrama

Two Delhi wedding planners, and everything the families hire them to conceal.

  • Season 1
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Russian Doll

2019–2022NetflixDrama

Twenty-eight seconds, which is all a show about the same night repeating needs. The joke is that you will see it many more times than the episode count suggests.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Descendants of the Sun1 sequence

Descendants of the Sun

2016KBS2Drama

A special forces captain and a surgeon in a fictional war zone, and the series that started the Hallyu streaming wave.

  • Season 1
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Years and Years

2019BBC One / HBODrama

Russell T Davies following one Manchester family fifteen years into a future that arrives faster than they do.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Reign1 sequence

Reign

2013–2017The CWDrama

Mary, Queen of Scots at the French court, with a deliberately anachronistic soundtrack.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Magnificent Century1 sequence

Magnificent Century

2011–2014Show TV / Star TVDrama

Suleiman the Magnificent's court, and the series that made Turkish dizi a global export.

  • Season 3
Still from the opening titles of The Little Drummer Girl1 sequence

The Little Drummer Girl

2018BBC One / AMCDrama

Park Chan-wook directing le Carré, in the most controlled colour palette on television that year.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Bureau1 sequence

The Bureau

2015–2020Canal+Drama

French intelligence procedure filmed with the patience of the job, and widely held to be the best spy series ever made for television.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Devious Maids1 sequence

Devious Maids

2013–2016LifetimeDrama

Beverly Hills housekeepers investigating a murder in one of the houses, from the Desperate Housewives creator.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Into the Badlands1 sequence

Into the Badlands

2015–2019AMCDrama

Ink-wash landscapes and weaponry, drawn in the style of the wuxia films the series is built from.

  • Season 1
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Wentworth

2013–2021SoHo / Fox ShowcaseDrama

An Australian prison drama with a thirty-second opening that gets colder as the series goes on.

  • Season 8
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Camelot

2011StarzDrama

The Arthur legend with Eva Green as Morgan, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
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Patriot

2015–2018Prime VideoDrama

An intelligence officer who processes his work by performing it as folk music, and an opening that treats that as unremarkable.

  • Season 1
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Quantico

2015–2018ABCDrama

FBI recruits and a bombing, told across two timelines.

  • Season 1
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Gentleman Jack

2019–2022BBC One / HBODrama

Anne Lister's coded diaries dramatised by Sally Wainwright, with Suranne Jones addressing the camera directly.

  • Season 1
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Nikita

2010–2013The CWDrama

The third screen version of the Besson film, after the 1997 series this catalogue holds as La Femme Nikita.

  • Season 2
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Treme

2010–2013HBODrama

Water stains, peeling paint and brass — post-Katrina New Orleans read off its own damaged walls, over John Boutté's title song.

  • Season 1
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Transparent

2014–2019AmazonDrama

Joey Soloway's family series, opened by home-movie footage of the Pfeffermans that turns out to be the whole thesis.

  • Season 1
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Good Witch

2015–2021Hallmark ChannelDrama

A film series turned into a returning one, about a woman whose neighbours are never quite sure about her.

  • Season 1
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Olive Kitteridge

2014HBODrama

Coastal Maine in muted colour, at the pace of a woman who has decided not to be pleased about anything.

  • Season 1
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Chesapeake Shores

2016–2022Hallmark ChannelDrama

A daughter called home to a Maryland inn, in the series that showed Hallmark could run a returning drama rather than only films.

  • Seasons 1–2
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My Mister

2018tvNDrama

A middle-aged engineer and a young woman in debt, in one of the quietest series Korean television has made.

  • Season 1
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Marco Polo

2014–2016NetflixDrama

Ink drawings of the Silk Road bleeding across parchment — cities, armies and mountains growing out of the map as the journey extends east.

  • Seasons 1–2
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Covert Affairs

2010–2014USA NetworkDrama

A CIA trainee promoted early for reasons she is not told.

  • Season 1
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Agent Carter

2015–2016ABCDrama

Post-war period design and a big-band arrangement, for the best-looking title sequence Marvel has put on television.

  • Season 1
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Borgen

2010–2022DR1Drama

Danish coalition politics, opened with the restraint the subject demands and none of the urgency an American network would insist on.

  • Season 4
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The Hollow Crown

2012–2016BBC TwoDrama

The history plays filmed as features, with a title card so brief it barely qualifies as a sequence.

  • Season 1
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My Brilliant Friend

2018–2024HBO / RAIDrama

Naples in the fifties rendered in faded photography, for an adaptation that spans fifty years of two lives.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of The Musketeers1 sequence

The Musketeers

2014–2016BBC OneDrama

Dumas serialised for Sunday evenings, with ink and gunpowder titles to match.

  • Season 1
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Little Women

2017BBC OneDrama

Alcott in three parts, with a title sequence made of cut paper and pressed flowers.

  • Season 1
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Andi Mack

2017–2019Disney ChannelDrama

A thirteen-year-old told that her sister is her mother, and the first Disney Channel series to give a main character a coming-out story.

  • Season 1
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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

2016–2019Netflix / MBSDrama

Two minutes of Tokyo at night before anyone speaks — a series whose opening is longer and slower than most shows' cold opens, deliberately.

  • Season 1
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Da Vinci's Demons

2013–2015StarzDrama

David Goyer's young Leonardo, opened by a sequence built entirely from his own notebook drawings.

  • Season 1
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UnREAL

2015–2018LifetimeDrama

The production office of a dating format, written by someone who had worked in one.

  • Seasons 1–2
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A Very English Scandal

2018BBC OneDrama

Russell T Davies and Stephen Frears on the Thorpe affair, opened in the graphic register of a 1970s political cartoon.

  • Season 1
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Kidding

2018–2020ShowtimeDrama

Jim Carrey as a children's television presenter coming apart, directed by Michel Gondry.

  • Season 1
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Alias Grace

2017NetflixDrama

Quilt patterns assembling and unpicking themselves — the needlework the narrator hides behind, used as the structure of the telling.

  • Season 1
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Tyrant

2014–2016FXDrama

The younger son of a Middle Eastern dictator dragged back from a Californian suburb.

  • Season 1
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Treadstone

2019–2020USA NetworkDrama

The Bourne programme as a series, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
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Riviera

2017–2020Sky AtlanticDrama

A widow discovering what her husband's money was, retitled between seasons as the show moved away from the coast it is named for.

  • Season 1
  • Season 3
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Rectify

2013–2016SundanceTVDrama

Rural Georgia at a pace matching the series — a man released after nineteen years, and titles that refuse to hurry him.

  • Season 1
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Vinyl

2016HBODrama

Record sleeves, needles and 1970s New York cut at the speed of the drug the show is about. One season only, so the titles outlived the series by a fortnight.

  • Season 1
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Fosse/Verdon

2019FXDrama

Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon's working marriage, opened in eleven seconds because the choreography is the show.

  • Season 1
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Deutschland 83

2015–2020RTL / AmazonDrama

Cold War East and West cut together over eighties pop, with the period's own graphic design doing the work.

  • Season 1
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Deadly Class

2019SyfyDrama

A boarding school for assassins in 1987, from the Rick Remender comic.

  • Season 1
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Trust

2018FXDrama

The Getty kidnapping told across ten hours by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy.

  • Season 1
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The Naked Director

2019–2021NetflixDrama

Toru Muranishi and the 1980s Japanese adult video industry.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Show Me a Hero1 sequence

Show Me a Hero

2015HBODrama

David Simon on a Yonkers housing desegregation fight, opened by one of the longest title sequences on premium television.

  • Season 1
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Boss

2011–2012StarzDrama

Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago mayor concealing a degenerative diagnosis, opened to Robert Plant.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Gran Hotel1 sequence

Gran Hotel

2011–2013Antena 3Drama

A 1905 luxury hotel and the disappearance of a chambermaid, from the team who went on to make Velvet and Cable Girls.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Velvet1 sequence

Velvet

2014–2016Antena 3Drama

A 1950s Madrid couture house, and the seamstress and the heir who grew up in it together.

  • Season 1
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Parade's End

2012BBC Two / HBODrama

Tom Stoppard adapting Ford Madox Ford across the First World War.

  • Season 1
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Howards End

2017BBC One / StarzDrama

Kenneth Lonergan's Forster adaptation, with titles built from cut-paper Edwardian silhouettes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of On Becoming a God in Central Florida1 sequence

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

2019ShowtimeDrama

Kirsten Dunst working her way up a pyramid scheme that destroyed her family.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Kodoku no Gurume1 sequence

Kodoku no Gurume

2012–TV TokyoDrama

A salesman eating alone in a different restaurant each week, narrating his own meal. Known abroad as Solitary Gourmet.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Magic City1 sequence

Magic City

2012–2013StarzDrama

A Miami Beach hotel in 1959, on the night Castro takes Havana.

  • Season 1
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Cable Girls

2017–2020Netflix (Spain)Drama

Four switchboard operators in 1928 Madrid, Netflix's first Spanish original.

  • Season 1
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I'm Dying Up Here

2017–2018ShowtimeDrama

The 1970s Los Angeles stand-up scene, produced by Jim Carrey.

  • Season 1
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The Loudest Voice

2019ShowtimeDrama

Roger Ailes and the building of Fox News, one episode per significant year.

  • Season 1
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Feud

2017–2024FXDrama

Ryan Murphy's anthology of famous enmities, retitled from scratch for each pair.

  • Season 2
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The Bastard Executioner

2015FXDrama

Kurt Sutter's fourteenth-century Wales, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
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Luck

2011–2012HBODrama

Milch and Michael Mann at a racetrack, ended after one season when horses died during production.

  • Season 1
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Strange Angel

2018–2019CBS All AccessDrama

Jack Parsons, rocket engineer and occultist, in 1930s Pasadena.

  • Season 1
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Occupied

2015–2020TV2 NorgeDrama

A Norwegian political thriller about a soft occupation, opened with the calm of a corporate annual report.

  • Season 1
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Rubicon

2010AMCDrama

An intelligence analyst finding a pattern nobody wants found, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
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Deutschland 86

2018Amazon Prime VideoDrama

The Deutschland 83 spy sent to Angola and South Africa three years on, in the middle chapter of the trilogy.

  • Season 1
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Hormones

2013–2015GMM 25Drama

A Bangkok school series that broke Thai television's rules about what teenagers could be shown doing.

  • Season 2
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The White Princess

2017StarzDrama

The sequel to The White Queen, following Elizabeth of York into the Tudor marriage.

  • Season 1
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Blinded

2019–2021TV4Drama

A financial journalist sleeping with the bank chief she is investigating. Swedish title Fartblinda — speed-blind.

  • Season 1
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Marseille

2016–2018NetflixDrama

The port city from the water, for Netflix's first French commission — a political drama that opens like a tourist board film and then does not behave like one.

  • Season 1
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Velvet Colección

2017–2019Movistar+Drama

The Velvet sequel, moving the fashion house from Madrid to Barcelona in 1967.

  • Season 1
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The Legacy

2014–2017DR1 (Denmark)Drama

Four siblings fighting over an artist mother's estate. Arvingerne at home.

  • Season 1
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Bad Banks

2018–2020ZDF / ArteDrama

Frankfurt and London investment banking, made as a European co-production and shot in three languages.

  • Season 1
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Sky Castle

2018–2019JTBCDrama

Four families in a gated Seoul compound competing over university admissions.

  • Season 1
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Young James Herriot

2011BBC OneDrama

The veterinary student years, three episodes long, from the same books All Creatures Great & Small comes from.

  • Season 1
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Catherine the Great

2019HBO / Sky AtlanticDrama

Helen Mirren as the empress in her last decades, in four parts.

  • Season 1
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Valkyrien

2017NRK1Drama

A doctor running an illegal clinic in a disused Oslo underground station.

  • Season 1
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13 Reasons Why

2017–2020NetflixDrama

Thirteen tapes left behind by a girl who has died, addressed one to each person she holds responsible.

  • Season 1
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Anne with an E

2017–2019CBC / NetflixDrama

Prince Edward Island in stop-motion paper and pressed flowers, over The Tragically Hip.

  • Season 1
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Another Miss Oh

2016tvNDrama

Two women with the same name, and a man who can see a few seconds into the future.

  • Season 1
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Bloodline

2015–2017NetflixDrama

A Florida Keys family whose eldest brother comes home, told across one summer and a confession.

  • Season 1
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The Chosen

2017–VidAngel / Prime VideoDrama

The crowdfunded life of Christ, with a title sequence that deliberately does not look like a Bible show.

  • Seasons 1–4
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Chuno

2010KBS2Drama

Slave hunters in late Joseon, shot handheld in the mountains and unusually violent for its slot.

  • Season 1
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Code Black

2015–2018CBSDrama

The busiest emergency room in America, named for the state it spends most of its time in.

  • Season 1
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Designated Survivor

2016–2018ABCDrama

The housing secretary kept away from the State of the Union, and therefore president by the end of it.

  • Season 1
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Doctor Foster

2015–BBC OneDrama

A GP who works out that her husband is having an affair, and then takes it apart methodically.

  • Season 1
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Empress Ki

2013–2014MBCDrama

A Goryeo woman who becomes empress of the Yuan court, across fifty-one episodes.

  • Season 1
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The End of the F***ing World

2017–2019Channel 4 / NetflixDrama

Sixties pop over two teenagers on a road trip that is going to end badly — an opening that is much sweeter than anything it introduces.

  • Season 1
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The Fosters

2013–2018ABC Family / FreeformDrama

A couple raising biological, adopted and foster children together, on a channel then rebranding around exactly that audience.

  • Season 1
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The Get Down

2016–2017NetflixDrama

The South Bronx in 1977, where disco is ending and hip hop has not been given a name yet.

  • Season 1
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Goblin

2016–2017tvNDrama

A nine-hundred-year-old immortal looking for the bride who can end him. Known abroad as Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.

  • Season 1
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Great Expectations

2011BBC OneDrama

The Dickens novel in three parts, with Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham.

  • Season 1
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Hart of Dixie

2011–2015The CWDrama

A New York surgeon who inherits half a general practice in Alabama and finds she cannot leave it.

  • Season 1
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Healer

2014–2015KBS2Drama

A night courier who takes any job without asking what it is, and the reporter who works out who he is.

  • Season 1
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The Heirs

2013SBSDrama

The children of chaebol families at the same school, arranged by inheritance rather than friendship.

  • Season 1
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Hot Stove League

2019–2020SBSDrama

A baseball club's front office in the closed season, which is where the title's stove is.

  • Season 1
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House of Anubis

2011–2013NickelodeonDrama

An English boarding school with an Egyptian secret underneath it, remade by Nickelodeon from a Dutch and Belgian original.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
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Jericho (2016)

2016ITVDrama

A shanty town thrown up under a Victorian railway viaduct in Yorkshire, and ITV's attempt at a British western.

  • Season 1
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Last Resort

2012–2013ABCDrama

A submarine crew who refuse an order and declare an island sovereign, cancelled after thirteen episodes.

  • Season 1
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Last Tango in Halifax

2012–2020BBC OneDrama

Two people who were sweethearts at school meeting again in their seventies, and the families that have accumulated since.

  • Season 1
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The Legend of the Blue Sea

2016–2017SBSDrama

A mermaid and a con artist, reincarnated from a Joseon folk tale into modern Seoul.

  • Season 1
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Life Unexpected

2010–2011The CWDrama

A girl in foster care who finds both her birth parents and asks them to take her back.

  • Season 1
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The Light in Your Eyes

2019JTBCDrama

A woman who can turn back time and ages a lifetime doing it, which the series does not explain until it has to.

  • Season 1
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Live

2018tvNDrama

Beat officers at a Seoul substation, from the writer of the Reply series.

  • Season 1
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The Lying Game

2011–2013ABC FamilyDrama

Twins separated at birth swapping places, from the author of Pretty Little Liars.

  • Season 1
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Madam Secretary

2014–2019CBSDrama

A CIA analyst made Secretary of State, in the political drama CBS ran opposite prestige cable.

  • Season 1
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Manhattan

2014–2015WGN AmericaDrama

The scientists at Los Alamos, and the families billeted alongside them who were told nothing.

  • Season 1
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Mildred Pierce

2011HBODrama

Todd Haynes's five-part Cain adaptation with Kate Winslet.

  • Season 1
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Misaeng

2014tvNDrama

A go player with no qualifications put into a trading company, and the office drama that made Korea talk about its own working hours.

  • Season 1
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Misty

2018JTBCDrama

A news anchor accused of murder, and the husband defending her without knowing.

  • Season 1
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The Moon Embracing the Sun

2012MBCDrama

A king and the shaman he was betrothed to as a boy, in the year's most-watched Korean drama.

  • Season 1
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Mr Selfridge

2013–2016ITVDrama

The American who opened a department store on Oxford Street and spent everything keeping it.

  • Season 1
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Mr. Sunshine

2018tvNDrama

A Korean boy sold into slavery who returns as an American marine, set in the last years before annexation.

  • Season 1
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The Next Step

2013–2025Family ChannelDrama

A dance studio filmed as a documentary about itself, which ran for twelve years.

  • Season 1
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Our Girl

2013–2020BBC OneDrama

An army medic on tour, in a drama that recast its lead and kept going.

  • Season 1
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Pan Am

2011–2012ABCDrama

Mad Men at altitude, cancelled after one season of very expensive period detail.

  • Season 1
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The Pillars of the Earth

2010StarzDrama

Ken Follett's cathedral built across eight hours of twelfth-century England.

  • Season 1
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Pinocchio

2014–2015SBSDrama

A reporter who hiccups when she lies, in a drama about what television news does to the people in it.

  • Season 1
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Poldark (2015)

2015–2019BBC OneDrama

Winston Graham's Cornish captain home from the American war to find his father dead and his fiancée engaged to his cousin.

  • Season 1
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Pretty Little Liars

2010–2017FreeformDrama

Four girls shushing the camera over a coffin — twenty-two seconds that state the entire premise and the entire threat.

  • Season 1
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The Red Road

2014–2015SundanceTVDrama

A New Jersey policeman and a Ramapough man held together by what each knows about the other.

  • Season 1
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Reply 1994

2013tvNDrama

A Seoul boarding house of students up from the provinces, and the second of the three Reply series.

  • Season 1
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Reply 1997

2012tvNDrama

Busan schoolfriends and first-generation fandom, told from a reunion looking back.

  • Season 1
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The Restaurant

2017–2021SVT (Sweden)Drama

A Stockholm restaurant family from 1945 onwards. Vår tid är nu at home — "our time is now".

  • Season 1
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School 2017

2017KBS2Drama

The seventh entry in a school series running since 1999, each with a new cast and year in the title.

  • Season 1
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Scorpion

2014–2018CBSDrama

A team of geniuses contracted by Homeland Security, very loosely based on a real consultant's account of himself.

  • Season 1
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Secret Garden

2010–2011SBSDrama

A department store heir and a stuntwoman who wake up in each other's bodies.

  • Season 1
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Strike Back

2010–2020Sky1 / CinemaxDrama

A British special-forces unit shot like an action franchise, in one of Sky's first co-productions with an American premium channel.

  • Season 1
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Switched at Birth

2011–2017ABC Family / FreeformDrama

Two teenagers swapped as babies, in a family drama that plays whole scenes in sign language.

  • Season 1
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Tales of the City

2019NetflixDrama

Armistead Maupin's Barbary Lane, returned to thirty years after the first adaptation.

  • Season 1
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Virgin River

2019–NetflixDrama

A nurse practitioner who answers an advertisement for a job in a Californian mountain town.

  • Season 1