Tiger King
2020–2021NetflixDocumentary
Airbrushed big-cat portraiture and rhinestone lettering, executed with total sincerity — the subject's own aesthetic, borrowed wholesale.
Tiger King opens with a main title sequence of 125 seconds.
At 125 seconds, it opens well above the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Netflix in 2020, when Top Boy, Big Mouth and Cobra Kai were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
125sThe title sequence.
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