True Detective Opening Scene

Last year I've started to post interesting opening credits from tv shows but to be honest there aren't that many really good ones out there so it's always a pleasure to see a new tv series with a great opening. True Detective premiered on a few days ago on HBO and though the show itself is pretty good it's opening is a masterpiece, beautiful colors, great compositions, simple yet effecting, check it out:

Best Opening Credits for TV Shows - Part 2.

Here are some more of the best openings for TV shows.

The first one is from a new show, The Newsroom. The first season had a simple, not too interesting opening sequence, but I guess they realized their mistake and renew the opening for the second season. Great, intimate images, colors, nothing flashy, perfectly composed, this is how you do it:

The next one is opening sequence of the HBO series called The Pacific. It's a WW2 miniseries with great production value, but the opening in itself is a little masterpiece. The live footage mixed with charcoal drawings fits perfectly the mood of the series, you can see that they really put a lot of effort in it. Check it out:

Lastly here is a series which I'm not really fond of, but it has a really cool comic book style opening, so if not the series at least intro is worth checking out, Strike Back, here it is: