Counterpart
Imaginary Forces splitting everything in two — figures, corridors, the type itself — for a show about a man meeting the version of himself from the other side of a crossing.
Counterpart kept one opening title sequence, 82 seconds long, across seasons 1–2.
At 82 seconds, it opens well above the 58-second median for sci-fi sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Starz in 2017, when Party Down, Power and The Girlfriend Experience were also on the network.
The opening titles
Seasons 1–2
82sPosted by Imaginary Forces, the studio that designed it.
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