17 Visually Stunning TV Opening Credits
5. American Gods
Patrick Clair truly is the king of opening credits. After his work on Daredevil and Westworld, he culminated all those fantastic visuals and thematic energy into American Gods.
American Gods is an already visually-heavy and confounding show, so its no wonder the opening credits oozes such a sinister, seductive mise-en-scène.
The opening credits travel up a totem pole of modern idols in modern America today. It forebodes a shadowy world of technological progress, hedonism, and glorified violence. In an interview, Patrick Clair explained his reading on the tower:
“The totem features deities inspired by gods across all manner of different religions – but messed up in ways that we found to be interesting, sticky, sort of sexy, challenging, dirty, wrong, but hopefully interesting.”