Apple TV+ opening titles
Apple TV+ accounts for 61 shows here, running from 2019 to the present, and 63 opening title sequences between them.
Drama leads with 18, then comedy with 14.
Two of them rebuilt their titles at least once.
61 shows · 63 sequences · oldest first
1 sequence
Dickinson
Nineteenth-century Amherst scored with modern pop, and a title card restaged for each episode's poem.
- Season 1
1 sequence
For All Mankind
Archive footage of the space race, doctored — real newsreel edited so that the alternate history it depicts appears to have actually been filmed.
- Season 1
1 sequence
See
Texture rather than image — rope, bark, cloth and skin filmed close enough to be read by hand, for a world that lost its sight generations ago.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Servant
A doll's house filmed as an actual house — a brownstone rendered in miniature, with something wrong in one of the rooms.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Morning Show
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
1 sequence
Truth Be Told
Recording equipment and case material, for a series about a true-crime podcast reopening its own mistake.
- 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 sequence
Little America
Half-hour films about immigrants to the United States, each based on a real person.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMythic Quest
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
Ted Lasso
Twenty-two seconds of Richmond's own stadium seats, photographed close and covered in fan graffiti, over a brass hook — brisk, warm, and gone before it can outstay itself.
- Season 2
1 sequenceTehran
Surveillance imagery and city geometry, cut so that watching and being watched look like the same activity.
- Season 2
1 sequence
Foundation
Mathematics rendered as architecture — the Prime Radiant's equations building and dissolving structures across millennia.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInvasion
Geometry spreading across the globe like frost, seen from far enough away that no one on the ground is visible.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSchmigadoon!
A couple trapped inside a Golden Age musical that will not let them leave until they find true love.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBad Sisters
Five sisters and the man they intend to kill, arranged like a family portrait that keeps rearranging itself.
- 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 sequenceFive Days at Memorial
A New Orleans hospital across the five days after Katrina, and the decisions taken inside it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
The Henson revival, which rebuilds the 1983 theme shot for shot with new puppets.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLoot
Extreme wealth drawn as a cheerful animated inventory — yachts, jets and foundations, arranged like a toy catalogue.
- Season 1
1 sequencePachinko
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
Prehistoric Planet
Attenborough narrating the Cretaceous as though a camera crew had been there, with a title sequence to match.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Severance
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 sequenceShantaram
Nine seconds and a card. One of the shortest openings in the catalogue, for one of its longest-gestating adaptations.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Slow Horses
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 sequenceThe Afterparty
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 sequenceThe Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Samuel L. Jackson given a drug that returns his memory for thirty days.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWeCrashed
Startup iconography inflating and bursting — open-plan glass, beanbags and valuation charts, treated as one continuous bubble.
- 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 sequenceExtrapolations
Climate data drawn as landscape — thirty-five seconds of a graph becoming a coastline.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHello Tomorrow!
Timeshare salesmen selling lunar property in a retrofuturist America that never happened.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHijack
Flight paths, cabin geometry and a clock — a series told in real time, saying so before it starts.
- Season 2
1 sequenceLessons in Chemistry
Laboratory glassware and 1950s kitchen surfaces filmed identically, so the science and the domesticity become the same set of tools.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Field notes, redacted files and creature silhouettes — a monster show introduced entirely through paperwork.
- Season 2
1 sequencePlatonic
Hand-lettered titles over Los Angeles in the afternoon, keeping the show's register exactly: pleasant, and slightly off.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Shrinking
Hand-drawn scribbles over domestic footage, in the register of a therapist's notebook margin.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Silo
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 sequenceThe Crowded Room
Tom Holland in a 1979 case built on the Billy Milligan story.
- 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 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 sequenceBefore
Billy Crystal as a child psychiatrist and a boy who knows things he should not.
- Season 1
1 sequenceConstellation
Doubled and inverted imagery over ice and orbit — two versions of the same events, laid on top of one another.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDark Matter
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 sequenceFranklin
Eighteenth-century Paris in ink and gold leaf, assembling the diplomacy the series is about out of correspondence.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLady in the Lake
Two women in 1960s Baltimore, one investigating and one already dead.
- Season 1
1 sequenceManhunt
Period engraving and telegraph type, assembling the pursuit of Lincoln's killer out of the era's own printed matter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMasters of the Air
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 sequencePalm Royale
Late-sixties Palm Beach as a resort brochure — pastels, poolside and social climbing, all rendered with a completely straight face.
- 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 sequenceSunny
Domestic robotics rendered as cheerful product design, in exactly the register that makes a helpful machine frightening.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe New Look
Couture construction shown as engineering — pattern, thread and seam assembling a silhouette, by Imaginary Forces.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTime Bandits
The Gilliam film as a series, made by the Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows writers.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChief of War
Hawaiian carving, cloth and volcanic landscape, filmed as artefacts of a nation rather than scenery.
- 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 sequenceDown Cemetery Road
Mick Herron before Slough House: a missing girl and an accountant who will not stop looking for her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMurderbot
Corporate spacefaring iconography interrupted by the soap operas its narrator would rather be watching.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Pluribus
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
1 sequenceSmoke
Fire filmed close enough to lose its shape — an arson series whose titles are almost entirely texture.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStick
A washed-up golfer coaching a teenager, and one of the few 2025 series whose service posted its own titles.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Your Friends & Neighbors
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 sequenceMargo's Got Money Troubles
A dolls'-house assault course in hard candy colours, Margo tumbling room to room while the credits ride the furniture.
- Season 1