Snowpiercer
The Bong Joon-ho film continued as a series on a train that cannot stop, opened in fourteen seconds.
Snowpiercer opens with a main title sequence of 14 seconds.
At 14 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for sci-fi sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on TNT in 2020, when The Walking Dead, The Night Manager and Fear the Walking Dead were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
14sFan upload from a titles-only channel.
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