The Witcher
No sequence in the usual sense. Each episode opens on its own sigil, drawn together out of liquid silver and shards over black, with the theme beneath it.
The Witcher rebuilt its titles: three distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1–3, running between 29 and 30 seconds.
At 30 seconds at its longest, it opens well under the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Netflix in 2019, when Arrested Development, Top Boy and Big Mouth were also on the network.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; The Witcher did so two times.
All 3 opening title sequences
Season 1
30sSilver sigils hang in the dark and assemble out of shards, one shape per episode, before the medallion and the name. The finale runs longer and brings every earlier sigil back together.
Season 2
29sThe same device for the second season: stones and shards drawing together into the episode's sigil, a gnarled tree here, above THE WITCHER.
Season 3
No clean upload of the third season's opening is listed here. The one that was, under a title imitating Netflix's own, was a fan's imagining of it.
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