The First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama told in parallel across one season.
The First Lady opens with a main title sequence of 79 seconds.
At 79 seconds, it opens well above the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Showtime in 2022, when Billions, City on a Hill and Your Honor were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
79sFound while searching for White Famous — the sixth entry in this catalogue added because a wrong answer turned out to be a show that was itself missing.
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- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequence
Landman
West Texas oil patch, filmed with the same proprietorial eye Yellowstone brings to Montana.
- Season 1
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House of the Dragon
The parent show mapped a continent; this one traces a bloodline. Where Game of Thrones built cities, these titles follow blood running through stone channels and a tapestry recording who killed whom.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
1 sequence
Slow Horses
London surveillance imagery over a theme Mick Jagger wrote for the show — a spy series whose titles are as shabby and unglamorous as its office.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Beef
A different David Choe painting behind the title card of every episode, so the opening is a gallery hung one canvas at a time across the season.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Industry
Twenty-two seconds of type and glass. A trading-floor show whose opening is over before you have settled, which is roughly how the job is depicted.
- Season 1