FX
40 shows, 51 sequences, oldest first.
5 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequenceSon of the Beach
2000–2002FXComedy
A Baywatch parody produced by Howard Stern, and one of FX's first originals.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNip/Tuck
2003–2010FXDrama
A mannequin being marked up for surgery, over a pop song — cosmetic work presented as retail, which is the show's position on it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRescue Me
2004–2011FXDrama
New York firefighters after 2001, introduced without a single heroic frame in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005–FX / FXXComedy
Photographs of Philadelphia over a jaunty public-domain waltz, with the episode's absurd title card dropped into the middle of it.
- Seasons 2–4
1 sequenceDamages
2007–2012FX / DirecTVCrime
Legal documents, blood and Manhattan glass, cut in the same non-linear fashion the series tells its story.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDirt
2007–2008FXDrama
Courteney Cox as the editor of a celebrity tabloid, cancelled during the writers' strike.
- Season 2
2 sequencesSons of Anarchy
2008–2014FXCrime
Leather, chrome and a reaper patch, over a theme re-recorded by a different artist as the club's situation deteriorates.
- Season 1
- Season 7
1 sequenceArcher
2009–2023FXAnimation
Sixties spy-thriller title design executed straight — silhouettes, gun barrels and a brass sting, with the joke being that the show underneath refuses to match it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe League
2009–2015FX / FXXComedy
A fantasy football league and the friendships it slowly destroys.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJustified
2010–2015FXCrime
Kentucky hills and hip-hop — Gangstagrass over holler country, which should not work and entirely does.
- Season 6
1 sequenceLouie
2010–2015FXComedy
A man walking to a comedy club and eating a slice of pizza, singing his own theme — fifty-two seconds with no jokes in them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTerriers
2010FXCrime
An unlicensed private investigator in Ocean Beach, cancelled after thirteen episodes and mourned ever since.
- Season 1
11 sequencesAmerican Horror Story
2011–FXHorror
An anthology, so there is no returning sequence to protect: Kyle Cooper builds a new one from scratch every season and the only thing carried across is the lettering. The sixth season is absent below because it went further still and threw the titles out altogether.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 8 more
1 sequenceWilfred
2011–2014FX / FXXComedy
A man who sees his neighbour's dog as an Australian in a dog suit, which the series never explains.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnger Management
2012–2014FXComedy
Charlie Sheen's return to television after Two and a Half Men, opened in twelve seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 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
1 sequenceChozen
2014FXAnimation
An animated rapper released from prison, from the Archer production team.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFargo
2014–FXCrime
Snow, and the claim that this is a true story, which it is not — an anthology that opens every season by lying to you in a title card.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Strain
2014–2017FXHorror
Guillermo del Toro's vampire plague, opened by a sequence of things going wrong at cellular scale.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTyrant
2014–2016FXDrama
The younger son of a Middle Eastern dictator dragged back from a Californian suburb.
- Season 1
1 sequenceYou're the Worst
2014–2019FX / FXXComedy
Two people who should not be together, opened in twenty-two seconds of exactly that.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2015–2016FXComedy
Denis Leary as a failed rock singer reforming his band around his own daughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Bastard Executioner
2015FXDrama
Kurt Sutter's fourteenth-century Wales, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAtlanta
2016–2022FXComedy
Donald Glover's series, opened with the same refusal to signal genre that the episodes run on — you are never told what kind of half-hour this is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBetter Things
2016–2022FXComedy
Twenty-nine seconds of domestic clutter, filmed with the affection of someone who lives in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFeud
2017–2024FXDrama
Ryan Murphy's anthology of famous enmities, retitled from scratch for each pair.
- Season 2
1 sequenceLegion
2017–2019FXSci-Fi
Noah Hawley's series about a man who cannot trust his own perception, with title design to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMayans M.C.
2018–2023FXCrime
The Sons of Anarchy spin-off, on the other side of the California border.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr Inbetween
2018–2021FXCrime
An Australian hitman's domestic life, opened in twelve seconds because the series has no interest in ceremony.
- Season 1
1 sequencePose
2018–2021FXDrama
Ballroom culture rendered in gold and satin, with the house names given the billing a network usually reserves for stars.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTrust
2018FXDrama
The Getty kidnapping told across ten hours by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFosse/Verdon
2019FXDrama
Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon's working marriage, opened in eleven seconds because the choreography is the show.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWhat We Do in the Shadows
2019–2024FXComedy
Gothic engraving and Norma Tanega's 'You're Dead' — a vampire mockumentary whose titles are the only part of it played completely straight.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDevs
2020FXSci-Fi
Alex Garland on determinism inside a quantum computing division, with two minutes of titles that behave like the machine.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmerican Horror Stories
2021–FXHorror
The American Horror Story spin-off, one self-contained hour at a time instead of one story a season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWelcome to Wrexham
2022–FXDocumentary
Two American actors buying a Welsh football club, and a title sequence that treats the town as the subject rather than them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrotesquerie
2024FXHorror
Ryan Murphy's detective series about a series of killings that read as tableaux.
- Season 1
1 sequenceShōgun
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 sequenceAdults
2025FXComedy
Five friends sharing a Queens house and failing at adulthood.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAlien: Earth
2025FXSci-Fi
Noah Hawley's Alien series, whose titles rebuild the slow-assembling wordmark of the 1979 film for television.
- Season 1