Drama · 2020s

126 shows131 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.

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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

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

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.

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Season 2
Season 3

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

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

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

Death by Lightning

2025NetflixDrama

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

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

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

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

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

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

Citadel

2023–Prime VideoDrama

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daisy Jones & The Six

2023Prime VideoDrama

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

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

The Idol

2023HBODrama

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lovely Runner

2024tvNDrama

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

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

Marry My Husband

2024tvNDrama

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

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

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

Twenty-Five Twenty-One

2022tvNDrama

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

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

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

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

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

Unorthodox

2020NetflixDrama

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

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

Étoile

2025Prime VideoDrama

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

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

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

The Time Traveler's Wife

2022HBODrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

The First Lady

2022ShowtimeDrama

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

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

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

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

D.P.

2021–2023NetflixDrama

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

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 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

The Regime

2024HBODrama

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

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

Rocket Boys

2022–2023SonyLIVDrama

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

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

Fatal Attraction

2023Paramount+Drama

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

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

George & Tammy

2022ShowtimeDrama

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

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

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

2023Paramount+Drama

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

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

Caliphate

2020SVT1Drama

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

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

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

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

Oktoberfest 1900

2020ARDDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

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.

Season 1

1 sequence

All Creatures Great & Small

2020–Channel 5 / PBSDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

The Artful Dodger

2023–Disney+Drama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

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.

Season 1

1 sequence

Boots

2025NetflixDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

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.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Crowded Room

2023Apple TV+Drama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Cruel Summer

2021–2023FreeformDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Five Days at Memorial

2022Apple TV+Drama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Ginny & Georgia

2021–NetflixDrama

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

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

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.

Season 1

1 sequence

Heated Rivalry

2025–CraveDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

The Hunting Wives

2025–NetflixDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Irma Vep

2022HBODrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Kamikaze

2021HBO MaxDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Little Fires Everywhere

2020HuluDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

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.

Season 1

1 sequence

Maestra: Strings of Truth

2023–2024tvNDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Mrs. America

2020FX on HuluDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

My Liberation Notes

2022JTBCDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

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.

Season 1

1 sequence

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.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Plot Against America

2020HBODrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Record of Youth

2020tvNDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

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

1 sequence

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

Sullivan's Crossing

2023–CTVDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Sweet Magnolias

2020–NetflixDrama

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

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

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.