Barry
A plain card and a held shot, gone in under half a minute. The show's whole comic method — refusing to signal what kind of scene you are in — starts with its titles refusing to signal anything at all.
Barry kept one opening title sequence, 23 seconds long, across season 2.
At 23 seconds, it opens well under the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on HBO in 2018, when Curb Your Enthusiasm, In Treatment and The Jinx were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 2
23sThe card as it ran in the second season.
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