Ty Segall’s pick-scraping intro for “Corporate” is as close to capturing the bleak angst of office life in musical form as you’ll hear anywhere else. Those whoops at the end of “The Good Fight” credits are just as much a part of the fabric of the show as the exploding office supplies. If Ludwig Göransson wasn’t already halfway to an EGOT, his “Patriot Act” theme song would be the best work of his career. Patrick and Ralph Carney’s opening for “BoJack Horseman” may not have any words, but it doesn’t make that heavy sax riff at the end any less recognizable.
Some of these fall closer to the more traditional instrumental expectations. Maybe it’s just the law of large numbers, but even with the glut of shows that now reduce their openings to a simple title card and a “created by” credit, there are plenty of TV themes besides Britell’s worth celebrating.
There certainly are times when the days of the wistful broadcast sitcom opening number (or even the days of theme songs that parodied them) seem firmly in the rearview mirror.īut with “ Succession” Season 2 coming to a close on Sunday, the rapid rise of Nicholas Britell’s opening 90-second orchestral drum loop earworm spectacular is cause for rethinking that assumption. Long before the “Skip Intro” era, people have lamented the demise of the theme song.
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