Low Winter Sun
The British two-parter remade in Detroit and stretched to ten episodes, cancelled after one season.
Low Winter Sun opens with a main title sequence of 30 seconds.
At 30 seconds, it opens well under the 47-second median for crime sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on AMC in 2013, when The Walking Dead, Mad Men and Breaking Bad were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
30sFan upload.
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