![]() ![]() The sequence uses the same music as in the game – written and performed by Gustavo Santaolalla – and the original logo remains, too. Look carefully, and you might spot the fungi morph into a map of the US, a city skyline, a screaming face or two human figures – signs of hope in the darkness. Various types of fungi slink rapidly across the screen, spreading outwards and upwards, a microcosm of the natural world consuming everything it comes across – beautiful, yet devastating. But for those who'd never played the game, the show's opening credits gave them a few clues. An adaptation of a hugely successful video game, the show's set-up was already familiar with many. In the case of The Last of Us, which premiered last month, that world was a post-apocalyptic landscape ravaged by a fungal pandemic which turns much of the population into zombie-like creatures – part human, part terrifying mushroom. Those 60 seconds at the start of an episode establish a mood, and prepare you for the world you're about to enter. 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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