The Queen's Gambit
Pieces, pills and ceiling tiles falling through one another — the board and the addiction rendered as the same descending motion.
The Queen's Gambit opens with a main title sequence of 48 seconds.
It arrived on Netflix in 2020, when Top Boy, Big Mouth and Cobra Kai were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
48sThe miniseries' only sequence.
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