FX opening titles
FX accounts for 41 shows here, running from 2000 to the present, and 52 opening title sequences between them.
Comedy leads with 13, then drama with eleven.
Two of them rebuilt their titles at least once — most of all American Horror Story, with eleven distinct sequences.
41 shows · 52 sequences · oldest first
5 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequence
Son of the Beach
A Baywatch parody produced by Howard Stern, and one of FX's first originals.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Nip/Tuck
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
New York firefighters after 2001, introduced without a single heroic frame in it.
- Season 1
1 sequence
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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 sequence
Damages
Legal documents, blood and Manhattan glass, cut in the same non-linear fashion the series tells its story.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDirt
Courteney Cox as the editor of a celebrity tabloid, cancelled during the writers' strike.
- Season 2
2 sequences
Sons of Anarchy
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 sequence
Archer
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
A fantasy football league and the friendships it slowly destroys.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJustified
Kentucky hills and hip-hop — Gangstagrass over holler country, which should not work and entirely does.
- Season 6
1 sequenceLouie
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
An unlicensed private investigator in Ocean Beach, cancelled after thirteen episodes and mourned ever since.
- Season 1
11 sequences
American Horror Story
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
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
Charlie Sheen's return to television after Two and a Half Men, opened in twelve seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Americans
Soviet and American iconography intercut until they mirror each other exactly — the show's entire thesis in twenty-six seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChozen
An animated rapper released from prison, from the Archer production team.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Fargo
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 sequence
The Strain
Guillermo del Toro's vampire plague, opened by a sequence of things going wrong at cellular scale.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTyrant
The younger son of a Middle Eastern dictator dragged back from a Californian suburb.
- Season 1
1 sequenceYou're the Worst
Two people who should not be together, opened in twenty-two seconds of exactly that.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Denis Leary as a failed rock singer reforming his band around his own daughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Bastard Executioner
Kurt Sutter's fourteenth-century Wales, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAtlanta
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
Twenty-nine seconds of domestic clutter, filmed with the affection of someone who lives in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFeud
Ryan Murphy's anthology of famous enmities, retitled from scratch for each pair.
- Season 2
1 sequence
Legion
Noah Hawley's series about a man who cannot trust his own perception, with title design to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMayans M.C.
The Sons of Anarchy spin-off, on the other side of the California border.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr Inbetween
An Australian hitman's domestic life, opened in twelve seconds because the series has no interest in ceremony.
- Season 1
1 sequencePose
Ballroom culture rendered in gold and satin, with the house names given the billing a network usually reserves for stars.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTrust
The Getty kidnapping told across ten hours by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFosse/Verdon
Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon's working marriage, opened in eleven seconds because the choreography is the show.
- Season 1
1 sequence
What We Do in the Shadows
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
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
The American Horror Story spin-off, one self-contained hour at a time instead of one story a season.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Bear
A kitchen show with no main titles at all — it opens cold, every week, which is exactly the sensation of a service starting.
- Season 3
1 sequence
Welcome to Wrexham
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
Ryan Murphy's detective series about a series of killings that read as tableaux.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Shōgun
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
Five friends sharing a Queens house and failing at adulthood.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Alien: Earth
Noah Hawley's Alien series, whose titles rebuild the slow-assembling wordmark of the 1979 film for television.
- Season 1