The Curse
Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie's series about a house-flipping couple, whose opening credits are different in every single episode.
The Curse opens with a main title sequence of 143 seconds.
At 143 seconds, it opens well above the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Showtime in 2023, when Billions, Your Honor and American Rust were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
143sAll ten episode intros collected in one upload, which is the only sensible way to look at them — the sequence is a running joke about the couple's HGTV show, and each version has drifted a little further from the last.
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