The OA
Famously withheld — the first season put its title card nearly an hour into the first episode, so most viewers met the opening long after the show had started.
The OA rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1–2.
It arrived on Netflix in 2016, when Mystery Science Theater 3000, Arrested Development and Top Boy were also on the network.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; The OA did so once.
All 2 opening title sequences
Season 1
No clean upload of the first season's sequence is listed here. The one that was turned out to be a portfolio copy.
Season 2
The monogram over the Earth at night, seen from orbit, then snowbound aerials of city and forest with the cast set small and wide across them.
More sci-fi opening titles from the 2010s
1 sequence
Stranger Things
Red letters assembling out of the dark in ITC Benguiat, glowing at the edges like a paperback cover left in the sun. An argument that a title sequence can be nothing but type and still do all the work.
- Seasons 1–4
1 sequence
3%
Netflix's first Brazilian original: a selection process that lets three in a hundred cross to the other side.
- Season 1
1 sequence
For All Mankind
Archive footage of the space race, doctored — real newsreel edited so that the alternate history it depicts appears to have actually been filmed.
- Season 1
3 sequences
Dark
Faces split and mirrored against themselves, reflected into a second image that is never quite the same person — a show about the same people at four ages, saying so before a word is spoken.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
1 sequence
The Man in the High Castle
Dick's occupied America, opened by newsreel light thrown across a map that has the wrong flags on it.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Black Mirror
A screen cracking, and that is the whole thing. Eighteen seconds of glitch and a fracture spreading across black glass — an anthology refusing to introduce anything, because each episode is a different show.
- Seasons 1–7