![]() We've come a long way from Dallas's three-way split-screen character shots – as iconic as that was.Īs the amount of TV on offer gets increasingly overwhelming, creators and networks want their shows to have a point of difference – right from the beginning. Or the trippy CGI animation of dystopian workplace drama Severance, a standalone work of art of its own.ĭespite the ubiquity of the "Skip Intro" button (which Netflix says its users press 136 million times a day) – or maybe because of it – opening credit sequences are increasingly unskippable. Or Succession's montage of grainy Roy family home-video footage, accompanied by Nicholas Brittell's Emmy-winning score. See the recent series of The White Lotus, featuring a 90-second-sequence of Italian frescoes packed with metaphors and clues for the series that became as much of a talking point as the show itself – and a theme song that has become an unlikely club anthem. Great television shows stick in your memory, but so do their opening credits – and, right now, we're in a golden age for them. Mad Men's faceless businessman falling from the sky, past skyscrapers and advertising billboards. ![]() ![]() Tony Soprano cruising through New Jersey in his Chevy, cigar hanging from his mouth. Carrie Bradshaw in a tank top and tutu getting splashed by a passing bus.
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