The Team
A Europol task force built out of three countries' police, and shot in all three languages.
The Team kept one opening title sequence, 61 seconds long, across season 2.
At 61 seconds, it opens well above the 47-second median for crime sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on ZDF in 2015, when Borgen and The Bridge were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 2
61sThe second season's Vorspann, posted by the company that produced it. Searching the German word rather than the English one got past a title too generic to find in English.
More crime opening titles from the 2010s
1 sequencePeaky Blinders
Nick Cave's 'Red Right Hand' over Birmingham furnaces and a man walking away from a fire — a period drama scored entirely out of period.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Rookie
A five-second card: THE ROOKIE in tall white capitals over a row of Los Angeles palms against a hazy blue sky, and the episode is under way.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBetter Call Saul
A title card that gets worse every year on purpose: tracking errors, colour bleed and tape damage accumulating season by season, so the picture degrades at roughly the rate its subject does.
- Seasons 1–6
1 sequenceFargo
Snow, and the claim that this is a true story, which it is not — an anthology that opens every season by lying to you in a title card.
- Season 1
4 sequencesTrue Detective
Double-exposure portraits where the landscape is projected onto the people. Every season is reshot from scratch, so the titles change as completely as the cast does.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 1 more
1 sequenceThe Blacklist
Nine seconds and a card. A ten-season network procedural that never once made you wait to get into an episode.
- Season 1