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Sci-Fi · 2020s

The 2020s account for 55 of the 268 sci-fi shows here, and 58 opening sequences.

Disney+ carries the most, with 16.

Three of them rebuilt their titles mid-run.

55 shows58 sequences

Still from the opening titles of Pluribus1 sequence

Pluribus

2025–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Vince Gilligan's first series after Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, opened in twenty-one seconds of white dots on black that settle into the title and hold nothing else — no cast, no footage, no colour.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Fallout1 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
Still from the opening titles of Severance2 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
Still from the opening titles of Silo1 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
Still from the opening titles of Foundation1 sequence

Foundation

2021–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Alice in Borderland1 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
Still from the opening titles of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds1 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
Still from the opening titles of 3 Body Problem1 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
Still from the opening titles of Andor1 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
Still from the opening titles of Resident Alien1 sequence

Resident Alien

2021–SyfySci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Dune: Prophecy1 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
Still from the opening titles of Invasion1 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
Still from the opening titles of Ironheart1 sequence

Ironheart

2025Disney+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Murderbot1 sequence

Murderbot

2025–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Halo1 sequence

Halo

2022–2024Paramount+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Dark Matter1 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
Still from the opening titles of The Institute1 sequence

The Institute

2025MGM+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Snowpiercer1 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
Still from the opening titles of 18991 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
Still from the opening titles of Loki1 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
Still from the opening titles of The Acolyte1 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
Still from the opening titles of Star Trek: Picard2 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
Still from the opening titles of WandaVision1 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
Still from the opening titles of Obi-Wan Kenobi1 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
Still from the opening titles of Raised by Wolves1 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
Still from the opening titles of The Peripheral1 sequence

The Peripheral

2022Prime VideoSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Echo1 sequence

Echo

2024Disney+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Devs1 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
Still from the opening titles of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier1 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
Still from the opening titles of Stargirl1 sequence

Stargirl

2020–2022DC Universe / The CWSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Constellation1 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
Still from the opening titles of The Uncanny Counter1 sequence

The Uncanny Counter

2020–2023OCNSci-Fi

Demon hunters working out of a noodle restaurant.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Blade Runner: Black Lotus1 sequence

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

2021–2022Adult SwimSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Man Who Fell to Earth1 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
Still from the opening titles of Extrapolations1 sequence

Extrapolations

2023Apple TV+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Brave New World1 sequence

Brave New World

2020PeacockSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Hello Tomorrow!1 sequence

Hello Tomorrow!

2023Apple TV+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Sunny1 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
Still from the opening titles of Tribes of Europa1 sequence

Tribes of Europa

2021Netflix (Germany)Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Biohackers1 sequence

Biohackers

2020–2021NetflixSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ahsoka1 sequence

Ahsoka

2023–Disney+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Alien: Earth1 sequence

Alien: Earth

2025FXSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Book of Boba Fett1 sequence

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.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Cowboy Bebop (2021)1 sequence

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.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Hawkeye1 sequence

Hawkeye

2021Disney+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Island1 sequence

Island

2022–2023TVINGSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters1 sequence

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
Still from the opening titles of Moon Knight1 sequence

Moon Knight

2022Disney+Sci-Fi

A man with dissociative identity disorder and an Egyptian god sharing him, with titles that run at the END of each episode rather than the start.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ms. Marvel1 sequence

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.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Percy Jackson and the Olympians2 sequences

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.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Power Rangers Cosmic Fury1 sequence

Power Rangers Cosmic Fury

2023NetflixSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Power Rangers Dino Fury1 sequence

Power Rangers Dino Fury

2021–2022NickelodeonSci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Secret Invasion1 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
Still from the opening titles of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew1 sequence

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

2024–2025Disney+Sci-Fi

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

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Station Eleven1 sequence

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