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I never EVER skip an opening credit sequence. The best of them function as an overture, establishing tone, and suggesting where a series will travel. This works for dramas (Friday Night Lights, The Sopranos, and Six Feet Under spring immediately to mind) as well as comedies. (You basically didn’t even need to watch Weeds — that’s...