Best opening scene in ANY tv show? (Broadcast, Cable, streaming, etc.)
08-10-21, 09:09 PM
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Best opening scene in ANY tv show? (Broadcast, Cable, streaming, etc.)
Raylen Givens, first scene with the draw at the Miami restaurant table in Justified. I’ve rewound that scene many times.
08-10-21, 09:15 PM
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Sounds like I'm piggybacking, but I was going Deadwood before I opened the thread.
08-10-21, 09:29 PM
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“Why America is not the greatest country” - The Newsroom
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08-10-21, 09:31 PM
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^ I remember that. I saw first few eps, never stuck, but that line did.
08-10-21, 09:50 PM
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Lost.
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08-10-21, 10:02 PM
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Great choice! Most expensive pilot to date and every cent of it is up on the screen. I was totally hooked.
Along the same lines, same DNA is The Leftovers. I didn't care much for Season One, but that opening scene is iconic and certainly influenced a multi-billion dollar franchise.
Along the same lines, same DNA is The Leftovers. I didn't care much for Season One, but that opening scene is iconic and certainly influenced a multi-billion dollar franchise.
08-10-21, 10:12 PM
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The opening scene of the first episode of Dexter is pretty memorable. Set the tone for the series right off the bat with an intense capture/kill.
08-10-21, 10:47 PM
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Lost was maybe the first to come to mind. I'll also throw out there Twin Peaks and The Prisoner.
08-10-21, 11:01 PM
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My favorites...
For a series premiere, definitely LOST.
For a specific episode, “24” - S4.E6 - Jack Bauer’s rescue mission by infiltrating a terrorist compound. Still my claim for the best shootout scene in TV series history.
For a series premiere, definitely LOST.
For a specific episode, “24” - S4.E6 - Jack Bauer’s rescue mission by infiltrating a terrorist compound. Still my claim for the best shootout scene in TV series history.
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08-10-21, 11:46 PM
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Orphan Black. The opening scene of the series is a great hook.
08-11-21, 09:14 AM
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The Wire
“If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play?”
"Got to. This America, man"
“If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play?”
"Got to. This America, man"
08-11-21, 09:18 AM
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08-11-21, 09:26 AM
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Specific episode Voyager 3x26, Scorpion pt 1. The Borg get their butts handed to them by an offscreen enemy. Smash cut to opening credits.
08-18-23, 09:09 PM
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Favorite opening scene of a brand new series?
Watching original Justified: Fire in the Hole (S1) again and that opening shoot out gets me every time. I was enthralled by the tenseness and brazen way to start a new series. Bold and shocking and refreshing.
08-18-23, 10:07 PM
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Penny Dreadful, Game Of Thrones, and Peaky Blinders come to mind also.
08-18-23, 11:02 PM
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Lost
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08-19-23, 07:24 AM
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Battlestar Galactica 2003(?) was a mini-series that led to the series but seeing human Cylons and Six kiss the diplomat before they destroyed the basis was a pretty big statement that it was different than the 70s version.
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08-19-23, 07:32 AM
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08-19-23, 07:36 AM
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Isn't that an homage to the first series which starts with a restaurant scene and a gun fight? (have not seen the new series yet so I may be way off base.
08-19-23, 11:23 AM
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Looks like it was merged with an old thread that Oldboy started in order to talk about the same episode. 
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08-19-23, 11:34 AM
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Opening sequence of Crime Story s01e01
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/479511/s01-e01-pilot
up to 10:49. Abel Ferrara directed this episode.
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/479511/s01-e01-pilot
up to 10:49. Abel Ferrara directed this episode.
08-19-23, 03:05 PM
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The World at War
Originally Posted by Sir Laurence Olivier
Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, a community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead.