Netflix

197 shows, 204 sequences, oldest first.

23 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.

1 sequence

Mystery Science Theater 3000

1988–1999, 2017–2018Comedy Central / Sci-Fi Channel / NetflixComedy

A man and two robots heckling films, whose theme song exists to explain the premise and then says so out loud.

Season 1

1 sequence

Arrested Development

2003–2019Fox / NetflixComedy

A ukulele, a narrator, and a family photograph that gets less flattering the longer you look at it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Black Mirror

2011–Channel 4 / NetflixSci-Fi

A screen cracking, and that is the whole thing. Eighteen seconds of glitch and a fracture spreading across black glass — an anthology refusing to introduce anything, because each episode is a different show.

Seasons 1–7

1 sequence

The Killing (US)

2011–2014AMC / NetflixCrime

The American remake of Forbrydelsen, moving the rain from Copenhagen to Seattle and keeping everything else.

Season 1

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Top Boy

2011–2023Channel 4 / NetflixCrime

A Hackney estate shot from within rather than above, over Brian Eno's score — which is not the collaboration anyone predicted.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lilyhammer

2012–2014NRK1 / NetflixCrime

Netflix's first original commission, and an opening that plays a New Jersey mobster in rural Norway entirely straight.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hemlock Grove

2013–2015NetflixHorror

A Pennsylvania steel town with a werewolf and a biotech company in it, and one of Netflix's first three originals.

Season 1

1 sequence

House of Cards

2013–2018NetflixDrama

Washington in time-lapse, shot at dusk and left to run — monuments, traffic and cloud moving over a city where nothing visibly happens. Jeff Beal's theme does the menace.

Seasons 1–6

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Orange Is the New Black

2013–2019NetflixDrama

Extreme close-ups of real formerly incarcerated women's faces — eyes, mouths, tattoos — cut to Regina Spektor. Not one of them is a cast member, which is the point.

Seasons 1–7

1 sequence

BoJack Horseman

2014–2020NetflixAnimation

A man drifting through his own life on his back while Los Angeles slides past above him, ending in a pool. Six seasons of the same slow fall, with the crowd around him quietly changing.

Seasons 1–6

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Marco Polo

2014–2016NetflixDrama

Ink drawings of the Silk Road bleeding across parchment — cities, armies and mountains growing out of the map as the journey extends east.

Seasons 1–2

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Bloodline

2015–2017NetflixDrama

A Florida Keys family whose eldest brother comes home, told across one summer and a confession.

Season 1

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Chef's Table

2015–NetflixDocumentary

Food shot in extreme close-up to classical strings — a cookery series that opens like a perfume advertisement and means it.

Season 1

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Club de Cuervos

2015–2019NetflixComedy

Netflix's first Spanish-language original, about two siblings inheriting a football club.

Season 1

1 sequence

Daredevil

2015–2018NetflixCrime

Blood-red liquid pouring upward into the shapes of New York — the courthouse, the church, the skyline — then the scales of justice and a man who cannot see any of it.

Seasons 1–3

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F Is for Family

2015–2021NetflixAnimation

A 1970s sitcom opening built out of wood panelling, cigarette smoke and a father arriving home — the era's own title design, with the warmth removed.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fauda

2015–Yes / NetflixDrama

An Israeli undercover unit and the Palestinian militants it pursues, played from both sides.

Season 1

1 sequence

Grace and Frankie

2015–2022NetflixComedy

Two women whose husbands leave them for each other, and who then have to live together.

Season 1

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Jessica Jones

2015–2019NetflixCrime

Purple watercolour bleeding across Hell's Kitchen while a noir trumpet plays — the colour of the villain seeping into every frame before he is named.

Seasons 1–3

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Making a Murderer

2015–2018NetflixDocumentary

Manitowoc County in winter over a plucked string figure — the sequence that defined what a Netflix true-crime series would look like for the next decade.

Season 1

1 sequence

Narcos

2015–2017NetflixCrime

Archive photographs, surveillance stills and evidence shots of the real Medellín cartel, cut to Rodrigo Amarante's 'Tuyo' — a bolero written to sound like something Escobar's father would have played.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

Sense8

2015–2018NetflixSci-Fi

Two minutes of documentary footage from eight cities — festivals, protests, traffic, dancing — cut so fast the places stop being separable. The longest opening on this site, and it earns it.

Seasons 1–2

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The Last Kingdom

2015–2022BBC America / NetflixDrama

Earth, ash and iron assembling into a map of a divided England, with the borders shifting as the seasons go on.

Season 1

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

2015–2019NetflixComedy

A woman released after fifteen years in a bunker, who moves to New York on the strength of it.

Season 1

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3%

2016–2020NetflixSci-Fi

Netflix's first Brazilian original: a selection process that lets three in a hundred cross to the other side.

Season 1

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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

2016NetflixComedy

Four ninety-minute films returning to Stars Hollow nine years on, one for each season of the year.

Season 1

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Hip-Hop Evolution

2016–2020NetflixDocumentary

Shad interviewing the people who were actually in the room, decade by decade.

Season 1

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Lady Dynamite

2016–2017NetflixComedy

Maria Bamford's series about Maria Bamford, structured across three timelines and opened in fifteen seconds.

Season 1

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Last Chance U

2016–2023NetflixDocumentary

Junior college football players with one season left to be recruited, and a marching-band cue for a theme.

Season 1

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Lucifer

2016–2021Fox / NetflixDrama

Eleven seconds and a card, from a procedural that would rather get to the case.

Season 1

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Luke Cage

2016–2018NetflixCrime

Harlem projected onto a man's skin — brownstones, crowds and streets mapped across a body that cannot be marked. The one Marvel Netflix opening that is about a place rather than a mood.

Seasons 1–2

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Marseille

2016–2018NetflixDrama

The port city from the water, for Netflix's first French commission — a political drama that opens like a tourist board film and then does not behave like one.

Season 1

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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

2016–2019Netflix / MBSDrama

Two minutes of Tokyo at night before anyone speaks — a series whose opening is longer and slower than most shows' cold opens, deliberately.

Season 1

1 sequence

Norsemen

2016–2020NRK1 / NetflixComedy

Viking iconography played with total sincerity by a comedy shot twice, in Norwegian and English, on the same sets.

Season 1

1 sequence

Stranger Things

2016–NetflixSci-Fi

Red letters assembling out of the dark in ITC Benguiat, glowing at the edges like a paperback cover left in the sun. An argument that a title sequence can be nothing but type and still do all the work.

Seasons 1–4

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The Crown

2016–2023NetflixDrama

Molten gold pouring, cooling and assembling itself into a crown, over Hans Zimmer. No faces and no footage — the object outlasts everyone who wears it, which is the show's entire argument.

Seasons 1–6

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The Get Down

2016–2017NetflixDrama

The South Bronx in 1977, where disco is ending and hip hop has not been given a name yet.

Season 1

1 sequence

The OA

2016–2019NetflixSci-Fi

Famously withheld — the first season put its title card nearly an hour into the first episode, so most viewers met the opening long after the show had started.

Seasons 1–2

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Travelers

2016–2018NetflixSci-Fi

Consciousnesses sent back from a ruined future into people about to die anyway, so the timeline notices nothing.

Season 1

1 sequence

Trollhunters

2016–2018NetflixAnimation

Guillermo del Toro's trolls under a Californian town, opened in fifteen seconds.

Season 1

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13 Reasons Why

2017–2020NetflixDrama

Thirteen tapes left behind by a girl who has died, addressed one to each person she holds responsible.

Season 1

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A Series of Unfortunate Events

2017–2019NetflixComedy

Lemony Snicket adapted with a title sequence whose lyrics are rewritten for every book — the song spends every verse telling you to stop watching.

Seasons 1–3

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Abstract: The Art of Design

2017–2019NetflixDocumentary

One designer an episode, with a title sequence rebuilt each time in that designer's own idiom — the rare series whose titles are the argument.

Season 1

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Alias Grace

2017NetflixDrama

Quilt patterns assembling and unpicking themselves — the needlework the narrator hides behind, used as the structure of the telling.

Season 1

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Anne with an E

2017–2019CBC / NetflixDrama

Prince Edward Island in stop-motion paper and pressed flowers, over The Tragically Hip.

Season 1

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Atypical

2017–2021NetflixComedy

Twenty-five seconds of hand-drawn Antarctic imagery, taken from the interests of the character it is about.

Season 1

1 sequence

Big Mouth

2017–2025NetflixAnimation

Puberty rendered as a marching band of anxieties, with the hormone monsters given equal billing to the children.

Season 1

1 sequence

Castlevania

2017–2021NetflixAnimation

Gothic architecture and stained glass rendered as a slow climb, refusing the game series' rock score for something closer to a requiem.

Seasons 1–4

3 sequences

Dark

2017–2020NetflixSci-Fi

Faces split and mirrored against themselves, reflected into a second image that is never quite the same person — a show about the same people at four ages, saying so before a word is spoken.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3

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GLOW

2017–2019NetflixComedy

A 1980s syndication opening played completely straight — chrome type, freeze-frames and spandex, as though the show inside it were the wrestling programme rather than a series about making one.

Seasons 1–3

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Godless

2017NetflixDrama

The frontier shot as landscape photography and left to sit — no montage, no faces, just weather crossing New Mexico for over a minute.

Season 1

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Iron Fist

2017–2018NetflixDrama

The last of the four Defenders series, and the one that completes the set here.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mindhunter

2017–2019NetflixCrime

Reel-to-reel tape, evidence photographs and audio equipment intercut so tightly that the interview and the crime become one process. Clinical, and much nastier for it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Money Heist

2017–2021NetflixCrime

Red jumpsuits, Dalí masks and the Royal Mint rendered as a heist diagram, with 'Bella Ciao' turned from a partisan song into a brand.

Seasons 3–5

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Neo Yokio

2017–2018NetflixAnimation

Ezra Koenig's magistocrat comedy, animated in Japan and pitched somewhere nobody has located since.

Season 1

1 sequence

One Day at a Time

2017–2020Netflix / PopComedy

The Norman Lear sitcom remade around a Cuban American family, with the 1975 theme rerecorded by Gloria Estefan.

Season 1

2 sequences

Ozark

2017–2022NetflixCrime

Five glyphs inside the letter O — a boat, a gun, a cross, a bird, a body of water — chosen for the episode they introduce. The title card is a table of contents.

Season 1
Season 2

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The End of the F***ing World

2017–2019Channel 4 / NetflixDrama

Sixties pop over two teenagers on a road trip that is going to end badly — an opening that is much sweeter than anything it introduces.

Season 1

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The Keepers

2017NetflixDocumentary

The unsolved killing of a Baltimore nun, and what her former pupils found when they investigated it themselves fifty years on.

Season 1

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The Punisher

2017–2019NetflixCrime

A skull assembling out of gun smoke and muzzle flash, with the ordnance doing the drawing. Blunter than its siblings, deliberately.

Seasons 1–2

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Wormwood

2017NetflixDocumentary

Errol Morris on Frank Olson's death, told half as interview and half as drama, with titles for both halves at once.

Season 1

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Aggretsuko

2018–2023NetflixAnimation

Sanrio character design and death metal, in an opening that switches between the two exactly as the protagonist does.

Season 5

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Altered Carbon

2018–2020NetflixSci-Fi

Bodies printed, sleeved and discarded in fluid — the show's premise, that a person is software and flesh is hardware, shown rather than explained.

Season 1

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

2018–2020NetflixHorror

The Archie witch as horror rather than sitcom, from the Riverdale producers.

Season 1

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Cobra Kai

2018–2025YouTube Red / NetflixDrama

The Karate Kid continued forty years on, with a title card that has been restaged in several different styles across the run.

Season 1

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Dirty Money

2018–2020NetflixDocumentary

One corporate fraud an episode, opening on money being counted by a machine that never stops.

Season 1

1 sequence

Disenchantment

2018–2023NetflixAnimation

A fantasy kingdom introduced with the same long pan Groening's other shows use, and the same willingness to hide jokes in the background.

Season 1

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Elite

2018–2024NetflixDrama

Eleven seconds of school crest and bass drop. The shortest opening on this site that still manages to be about class.

Season 1

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Girl from Nowhere

2018–2021GMM 25 / NetflixHorror

A girl who transfers into a different school every episode and exposes what it is hiding.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hilda

2018–2023NetflixAnimation

Luke Pearson's blue-haired girl and the Nordic folklore living beside her town.

Season 1

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La Casa de las Flores

2018–2020NetflixComedy

A Mexico City florist family and the second family the father has been keeping.

Season 1

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Maniac

2018NetflixSci-Fi

Retro-futurist hardware and pharmaceutical diagrams in a palette borrowed from 1980s Japan — a computer's idea of a mind, drawn by the machine trying to fix one.

Season 1

1 sequence

Narcos: Mexico

2018–2021NetflixCrime

The parent show's archive-and-evidence method moved north — Guadalajara and Sinaloa in period photography, with the same documentary flatness.

Seasons 1–3

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Queer Eye

2018–NetflixDocumentary

Two minutes of the five hosts introduced one at a time, in the format's own house style of relentless warmth.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rotten

2018–2019NetflixDocumentary

The food supply chain taken apart one commodity at a time, in seventeen seconds of things going bad.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sacred Games

2018–2019NetflixCrime

Mumbai rendered as a mandala of crime and religion, with the city's iconography arranged into something closer to a devotional image.

Season 1

1 sequence

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

2018–2020NetflixAnimation

The 1985 toy line rebuilt by Noelle Stevenson into something the original could not have carried.

Season 1

1 sequence

Somebody Feed Phil

2018–NetflixDocumentary

Phil Rosenthal eating his way around the world, with a theme song written and sung about him by his friends.

Season 5

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The Dragon Prince

2018–NetflixAnimation

Twenty-seven seconds of moving illustration, closer to a book being opened than a montage.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Haunting of Hill House

2018–2020NetflixHorror

The house drawn as an architectural plate, rooms opening into rooms, with figures standing in doorways you are not meant to notice on a first pass.

Season 1

1 sequence

You

2018–Lifetime / NetflixCrime

A bookshop manager narrating his own stalking in the second person, moved to Netflix after one season.

Season 1

1 sequence

After Life

2019–2022NetflixComedy

Ricky Gervais on grief, in the smallest register he has ever worked in.

Season 1

1 sequence

Black Summer

2019–2021NetflixHorror

The Z Nation prequel, played without any of the parent series' jokes and shot in long unbroken takes.

Seasons 1–2

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Carmen Sandiego

2019–2021NetflixAnimation

The game-show thief given an origin, animated in flat colour and a lot of red.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dead to Me

2019–2022NetflixComedy

A widow and the woman she meets at grief counselling, who knows rather more about the death than she says.

Season 1

1 sequence

Delhi Crime

2019–NetflixCrime

Delhi at night from a moving vehicle, with none of the stylisation the subject would normally attract.

Season 1

1 sequence

Green Eggs and Ham

2019–2022NetflixAnimation

Fifty Seuss words expanded into two seasons, animated with more craft than the premise suggests.

Season 2

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High Seas

2019–2020NetflixCrime

Two sisters on a 1940s liner to Rio, and a passenger who was never on the manifest.

Season 1

1 sequence

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

2019–2022NetflixComedy

A teenager who builds Europe's largest online drug market from his bedroom to win back a girlfriend, and eleven seconds to say so.

Season 1

1 sequence

Kingdom

2019–2021NetflixHorror

Joseon-era ink painting turning plague-ridden — court robes and mountains overrun by figures that do not move like the living.

Season 2

1 sequence

Love, Death + Robots

2019–NetflixAnimation

Three icons — a heart, a skull, a robot — recombined every episode to declare which of the three that instalment is going to be. The shortest possible statement of an anthology's rules.

Season 1

1 sequence

Marianne

2019NetflixHorror

A horror novelist who discovers the witch she invented has been real the whole time, and eleven seconds to say it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Russian Doll

2019–2022NetflixDrama

Twenty-eight seconds, which is all a show about the same night repeating needs. The joke is that you will see it many more times than the episode count suggests.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sex Education

2019–2023NetflixComedy

Twenty seconds of hand-drawn scrawl and pop, pitched exactly at the notebook margins the show is set among.

Season 2

1 sequence

Tales of the City

2019NetflixDrama

Armistead Maupin's Barbary Lane, returned to thirty years after the first adaptation.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

2019NetflixSci-Fi

The Henson prequel built with real puppets, opened by a sequence that shows you the crystal breaking before the story reaches it.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Naked Director

2019–2021NetflixDrama

Toru Muranishi and the 1980s Japanese adult video industry.

Season 2

1 sequence

The Order

2019–2020NetflixHorror

A university secret society of magicians and the werewolves who police them, which is two shows at once and knows it.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Umbrella Academy

2019–2024NetflixSci-Fi

Comic-panel graphics and a brass sting, introducing seven siblings by number rather than name.

Season 1

3 sequences

The Witcher

2019–NetflixDrama

Monsters, coins and continents cut into a woodblock-print style, with the medallion turning at the centre of it.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3

1 sequence

Tuca & Bertie

2019–2022Netflix / Adult SwimAnimation

Buildings with faces and plants with opinions — a city drawn as though everything in it is slightly alive, which in this show it is.

Season 1

1 sequence

V Wars

2019NetflixHorror

A thawing glacier releasing a pathogen that turns some of the infected into vampires, from the Jonathan Maberry comics.

Season 1

1 sequence

Virgin River

2019–NetflixDrama

A nurse practitioner who answers an advertisement for a job in a Californian mountain town.

Season 1

1 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

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

Biohackers

2020–2021NetflixSci-Fi

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

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

Blood of Zeus

2020–NetflixAnimation

Greek vase painting animated into motion, with the title card restaged for each episode's myth.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bom Dia, Verônica

2020–2024NetflixCrime

A São Paulo police clerk who starts investigating a case nobody assigned her.

Season 1

2 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.

Season 1
Season 2

1 sequence

Cheer

2020–2022NetflixDocumentary

A Texas junior college cheerleading squad, filmed as a sport rather than as a sideline to one.

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

Emily in Paris

2020–NetflixComedy

Paris as a postcard rack — every landmark in order, photographed exactly as the show's protagonist would photograph them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Extracurricular

2020NetflixCrime

A model student funding his own tuition by running a criminal enterprise after school.

Season 1

1 sequence

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

2020–2022NetflixAnimation

Six children on Isla Nublar during the events of the 2015 film, which nobody comes to collect.

Season 1

1 sequence

Locke & Key

2020–2022NetflixHorror

Keys turning in locks that open onto rooms which should not exist, drawn from the comic's own conceit.

Season 1

1 sequence

Never Have I Ever

2020–2023NetflixComedy

Mindy Kaling's high-school series, narrated by John McEnroe for reasons the titles do not explain.

Season 1

1 sequence

October Faction

2020NetflixHorror

Two monster hunters whose teenage children do not know what the family business is.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ratched

2020NetflixHorror

Mid-century clinical design turned lurid — surgical steel, pastel tile and hypodermics arranged with the care of a fashion shoot.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sweet Home

2020–2024NetflixHorror

The apartment block as a cross-section, with something wrong in every unit — the show's premise drawn as a floor plan.

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 Baby-Sitters Club

2020–2021NetflixComedy

The Ann M. Martin books adapted with a hand-lettered, sticker-book title sequence.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Haunting of Bly Manor

2020NetflixHorror

The Turn of the Screw as the second Haunting, with the same company of actors in different parts.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Last Dance

2020ESPN / NetflixDocumentary

Archive footage cut to a hip-hop bed, treating a basketball season as a heist film.

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

The Woods

2020NetflixCrime

Harlan Coben adapted into Polish, with a prosecutor reopening the summer camp his sister vanished from.

Season 1

1 sequence

Tiger King

2020–2021NetflixDocumentary

Airbrushed big-cat portraiture and rhinestone lettering, executed with total sincerity — the subject's own aesthetic, borrowed wholesale.

Season 1

1 sequence

Unorthodox

2020NetflixDrama

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Unsolved Mysteries (2020)

2020–NetflixDocumentary

The revival, which keeps the original's silhouette and drops its host.

Season 1

1 sequence

Arcane

2021–2024NetflixAnimation

Painterly animation of two sisters pulling apart, rendered in the same hand-worked style as the series — one of the few animated openings that is not a step down from the show it introduces.

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

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

1 sequence

D.P.

2021–2023NetflixDrama

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

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

Girls5eva

2021–2024Peacock / NetflixComedy

A one-hit girl group reassembling in their forties, opened by their own hit.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hellbound

2021–NetflixHorror

Twenty-five seconds of smoke and scripture, over before the dread has anywhere to settle.

Season 1

1 sequence

Inside Job

2021–2022NetflixAnimation

Conspiracy iconography assembled into a corporate onboarding video — every hidden-world cliché filed and badged.

Season 1

1 sequence

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

2021NetflixAnimation

Kevin Smith's continuation of the 1983 series, opened in the same fanfare it inherited.

Season 1

1 sequence

Midnight Mass

2021NetflixHorror

Crockett Island in grey water and grey weather, with a church at the centre of it and nothing yet visibly wrong.

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

Snabba Cash

2021–2022NetflixCrime

The Stockholm crime films continued as a series, following the money rather than the men.

Season 2

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

Star Trek: Prodigy

2021–2024Nickelodeon / NetflixAnimation

Made for viewers who had never seen a Star Trek before, and it shows in the best way — the Protostar streaks through bright, candy-coloured space on a theme with more wonder in it than most of the grown-up entries.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

Who Killed Sara?

2021–2022NetflixCrime

Photographs, parachute rigging and water — the single incident the whole series circles, restaged in the titles every season.

Seasons 1–3

1 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

1 sequence

All of Us Are Dead

2022–NetflixHorror

School notebooks, corridors and lab equipment, cut fast enough that the outbreak reads as timetabled.

Season 1

1 sequence

Archive 81

2022NetflixHorror

Degraded videotape and splice marks — the found footage the show is built from, doing its own titles.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cabinet of Curiosities

2022NetflixHorror

A physical cabinet opened drawer by drawer, each one holding the object that episode is about — an anthology that indexes itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

2022NetflixAnimation

Franz Ferdinand over Night City, cut by Studio Trigger at a speed that dares you to keep up.

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

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

2022NetflixCrime

Domestic surfaces filmed too closely — carpet, wallpaper, a fish tank — so ordinary rooms read as evidence before anything has happened in them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sonic Prime

2022–2024NetflixAnimation

A shattered multiverse of Sonics, opened in twelve seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Cuphead Show!

2022NetflixAnimation

The game's 1930s rubber-hose style animated properly, which is the whole point of it.

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 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

The Lincoln Lawyer

2022–NetflixCrime

Connelly's defence attorney working out of the back seat of a car, brought to television a decade after the film.

Season 1

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

The Watcher

2022–NetflixHorror

A house filmed from outside, at the distance a neighbour would stand — which is the entire threat.

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

Weak Hero Class

2022–2025Wavve / NetflixDrama

A top student fighting his way through school violence, from the webtoon.

Season 2

2 sequences

Wednesday

2022–NetflixHorror

Gothic paper-cut animation and a harpsichord, doing in seventy-nine seconds what the Addams Family finger-snap did in eight.

Season 1
Season 2

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

Berlin

2023–NetflixCrime

The Money Heist prequel, giving the character who died in the second season a heist of his own.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bloodhounds

2023–2026NetflixCrime

Two young boxers working off a debt for a Seoul loan shark, and trying to stop.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blue Eye Samurai

2023–NetflixAnimation

Ink, forge-fire and steel — a blade being made, in the same brushwork the series uses for its violence.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bodies

2023NetflixCrime

One corpse in one Whitechapel alley, found by four detectives in four different centuries.

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

Guns & Gulaabs

2023NetflixCrime

A 1990s opium town played as comedy, from the Gunjan Saxena directors.

Season 1

1 sequence

Gyeongseong Creature

2023–2024NetflixHorror

Occupied Seoul in 1945, and what the occupiers are keeping in the hospital basement.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mask Girl

2023NetflixCrime

One woman played by three actors across three decades, from the webtoon.

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

Power Rangers Cosmic Fury

2023NetflixSci-Fi

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

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

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

2023NetflixAnimation

The O'Malley books animated by Science SARU, with an opening in the full Japanese OP tradition.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Fall of the House of Usher

2023NetflixHorror

Corporate portraiture rotting in place — a pharmaceutical dynasty photographed like old money and left to decay in frame.

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

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

1 sequence

A Man on the Inside

2024–NetflixComedy

A retired professor sent undercover into a care home, from the creator of The Good Place.

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

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Bodkin

2024NetflixCrime

An Irish coastal town shot as podcast artwork — the true-crime aesthetic the series is making fun of, deployed without a wink.

Season 1

1 sequence

Culinary Class Wars

2024–NetflixDocumentary

A hundred anonymous Korean chefs cooking against twenty famous ones, the unknown half dressed in black throughout.

Season 1

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Dead Boy Detectives

2024NetflixHorror

Two dead schoolboys who refuse to move on and open a detective agency instead, out of the Sandman comics.

Season 1

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Fool Me Once

2024NetflixCrime

A widow who sees her dead husband on a nanny camera, from the Harlan Coben deal.

Season 1

1 sequence

Parasyte: The Grey

2024NetflixHorror

The Iwaaki manga relocated to Korea, running alongside the Japanese continuity rather than remaking it.

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

The Perfect Couple

2024NetflixCrime

The cast dancing on a Nantucket lawn in wedding clothes, entirely straight-faced — a tonal misdirection the series never repeats.

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

Boots

2025NetflixDrama

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

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

Dept. Q

2025NetflixCrime

Edinburgh stone and basement strip-lighting — a cold-case unit introduced by the room it was exiled to.

Season 1

1 sequence

Devil May Cry

2025NetflixAnimation

The Capcom games animated by the Castlevania team, with an opening cut to match.

Season 1

1 sequence

Long Story Short

2025NetflixAnimation

Raphael Bob-Waksberg's family comedy, which jumps decades between scenes and uses its titles to say so.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sakamoto Days

2025–TV Tokyo / NetflixAnimation

A retired hitman running a corner shop, and everyone from the old life who keeps turning up.

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

The Residence

2025NetflixCrime

The White House drawn as a cutaway doll's house, every room a suspect — a whodunnit that hands you the floor plan first.

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

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