It’s easy to take opening titles for granted. In the age of streaming, it’s more convenient than ever to just skip over them. But they hold an important role in the TV-watching experience: In the first moments of a marathon, the opening titles are a viewer’s first clue as to what’s coming ahead, even if it might take weeks before it pays off.
It’s hard to imagine a opening sequence that made a bigger splash than Yellowjackets’, a grungy, distorted camcorder sequence showing the characters before, during, and after the plane crash that changed their lives, all set to “No Return,” a face-melting punk song by Craig Wedren of Shudder to Think and Anna Waronker of That Dog.
