Blood & Water
A Cape Town teenager who believes a swimming champion at her new school is the sister abducted at birth.
Blood & Water kept one opening title sequence, 13 seconds long, across season 2.
At 13 seconds, it opens well under the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Netflix in 2020, when Top Boy, Big Mouth and Cobra Kai were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 2
13sCompilation channel. Thirteen seconds — a title card rather than a sequence, which is the Netflix house length.
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