The Lincoln Lawyer
Connelly's defence attorney working out of the back seat of a car, brought to television a decade after the film.
The Lincoln Lawyer opens with a main title sequence of 19 seconds.
At 19 seconds, it opens well under the 47-second median for crime sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Netflix in 2022, when Top Boy, Big Mouth and Cobra Kai were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
19sFan upload of the series' title card. The best-ranked result is the 2011 film's sequence, which is a different production entirely.
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