Da Vinci's Demons
David Goyer's young Leonardo, opened by a sequence built entirely from his own notebook drawings.
Da Vinci's Demons opens with a main title sequence of 71 seconds.
At 71 seconds, it opens well above the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Starz in 2013, when Party Down, Spartacus and Magic City were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
71sPosted by Starz. Sketches assemble themselves into machines and come apart again — the best use any series has made of a real artist's working papers.
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