The Twilight Zone (2019)
2019–2020CBS All AccessSci-Fi
Jordan Peele's revival, which rebuilds Marius Constant's theme and the spiral for a fourth time — sixty years after the original and still recognisably the same idea.
The Twilight Zone (2019) opens with a main title sequence of 31 seconds.
At 31 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for sci-fi sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on CBS All Access in 2019, when The Good Fight, Why Women Kill and Strange Angel were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
31sThe revival's sequence, quoting the 1961 titles without reproducing them.
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