We now live in the era of streaming tv shows. Shows we often binge watch, several episodes at a time. In this era, are opening credits or opening sequences even required?

No matter how good they are simply something we have to watch or rewatch at the start of every episode. The longer they are the more of our time they waste.

There are still good ones, Game of Thrones comes to mind. Others, such as the opening sequence for Jessica Jones, don’t change from episode to episode and do little but annoy when watching several episodes back to back. Breaking Bad‘s eight second sequence is the best solution I’ve seen so far.

Netflix allows us to skip the end credits but forces us to watch the opening sequence. Shouldn’t we at least have the choice?