Bodies
One corpse in one Whitechapel alley, found by four detectives in four different centuries.
Bodies opens with a main title sequence of 71 seconds.
At 71 seconds, it opens well above the 47-second median for crime sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Netflix in 2023, when Top Boy, Big Mouth and Cobra Kai were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
71sPosted by Studio AKA, who animated it — the four eras folding through one another, which is the plot.
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