Cheer
2020–2022NetflixDocumentary
A Texas junior college cheerleading squad, filmed as a sport rather than as a sideline to one.
Cheer opens with a main title sequence of 61 seconds.
At 61 seconds, it opens well above the 37-second median for documentary 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 1
61sFan upload of the first season's credits.
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