Better Call Saul
A title card that gets worse every year on purpose: tracking errors, colour bleed and tape damage accumulating season by season, so the picture degrades at roughly the rate its subject does.
No single version of the Better Call Saul titles stands for the rest, so the clip here collects them together across seasons 1–6.
It arrived on AMC in 2015, when The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and Mad Men were also on the network.
The opening titles
Seasons 1–6
Every season's version in order, which is the only way to see the point: each is a further-degraded generation of the last, and a single one tells you nothing.
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1 sequence
Peaky Blinders
Nick Cave's 'Red Right Hand' over Birmingham furnaces and a man walking away from a fire — a period drama scored entirely out of period.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Rookie
A five-second card: THE ROOKIE in tall white capitals over a row of Los Angeles palms against a hazy blue sky, and the episode is under way.
- 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
4 sequences
True Detective
Double-exposure portraits where the landscape is projected onto the people. Every season is reshot from scratch, so the titles change as completely as the cast does.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 1 more
1 sequence
The Blacklist
Nine seconds and a card. A ten-season network procedural that never once made you wait to get into an episode.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Animal Kingdom
The Australian film remade in Southern California, following the same criminal family.
- Season 1