10 Bad TV Shows With Great Opening Title Sequences

Believe me, I'm as surprised as you are that a Scorsese project has wound up on a "bad" list for anything. The prospect of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time returning to HBO to make a series about the NYC rock scene sounds almost too good to be true. So perhaps the show was damned from the outset by our own expectations.

Vinyl has its weird moments of brilliance, but in the end it feels like a parody of Martin Scorsese projects. It has all the cliches - accidental murders, abstract musical montages, and more shots of characters snorting cocaine than a bathroom camera on Wall Street. It is the first Scorsese-helmed project in years that feels like he's merely recycling ideas from his own catalog. The one unique feature of the show is its wacky opening titles, which feel like something out of a record label's fever dream.

The montage of New York footage is impressive enough, but the image that ties the whole thing together is the microscopic view of a record player. It makes the audience expect a show that is absolutely pulsing with the energy and passion of classic rock. It's like an abstract music video that just happens to have credits over it.