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Silicon Valley

2014–2019HBOComedy

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An animated Bay Area skyline of tech-company headquarters, rebuilt every season to match who was winning that year. The joke only works because it kept being updated — logos appear, get acquired, and vanish between seasons.

Silicon Valley rebuilt its titles: five distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, running between 11 and 15 seconds.

At 15 seconds at its longest, it opens well under the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on HBO in 2014, when Curb Your Enthusiasm, In Treatment and The Comeback were also on the network.

Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; Silicon Valley did so four times.

5 sequences98th most looked up of 760 in the 2010sIMDb ↗
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All 5 opening title sequences

Season 1

11s

Eleven seconds, and the shortest sequence in the catalogue. The skyline as it stood in 2014.

Season 3

12s

Two years on, and the skyline has been redrawn — companies that were landmarks in the first season are gone from it.

Season 4

15s

Redrawn again. The buildings, logos and billboards track a different set of companies each time, which is the running gag of the whole sequence.

Season 5

11s

Redrawn for 2018.

Season 6

11s

The final skyline, five years after the first — almost none of the buildings in it were there in 2014.

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