The Leftovers
The rare show that threw out a perfectly good title sequence and replaced it with its opposite. One season of grief painted as a Renaissance ceiling, then a complete reversal into snapshots and a country song.
Season 1
83sA fresco in the Renaissance manner — figures reaching upward as people are taken out of the frame — over Max Richter's score. Mournful, and widely disliked for it.
Season 2
89sDiscarded and rebuilt from scratch: family snapshots with the departed erased out of them, cut to Iris DeMent's 'Let the Mystery Be'. The same show announcing a different attitude to the same loss.
Season 3
85sThe snapshot format is kept for the final season, but the song beneath it was swapped from episode to episode rather than fixed.