These days, it's hard to find a good television opening theme. Some shows, such as My Name is Earl, simply say the title, and others, like any reality show, show clips of the actual show. However, occasionally, you find a few gems hidden in with the rest of the bland openers out there today. These are some of my favorite, in countdown order. 5. Fringe While Fringe's opening doesn't strive for anything new (it starts and ends quickly), it features a piano instrumental so chilling that, when paired with supernaturally scientic words, it sets the scene perfectly for this disturbing science drama. 4. Mad Men This shorter opening is similar to a strange drug trip, or a hallucinatory journey through a professional's life in the 1960's. It is chic, as is the series, and shows the slowly overwelming world of both single and married men and women. 3. Dexter While I have never seen this series personally, I know the gist of it, and the opening is supremely creepy. It blurs the line between reality and horror, until fried eggs, shaving, and other morning routines are fantastically disturbing. 2. Dead Like Me This series (now off-air) about living "Reapers" uses dark humor, and it's opening exemplifies that fact. Featuring Grim Reapers as everyday people, it shows that even death, sometimes, can be funny. 1. True Blood True Blood, like many subscription-channel shows, has a longer opener than most broadcast ones. The series, which is about a girl who falls in love with a vampire in the Lousiana bayou, uses it's opener to set the scene for this modern-day Southern gothic. It is sexy and scary, shows the division between races, and singular images like a slow-motion snake attack and cigarette smoke being inhaled (an exhale shot in reverse). It paints a picture of the gothic South. It features an appropriate song for the series if not the opener, Jace Everett's "Bad Things," and ends on a note of blurred lines, something that looks like a baptismal but could easily be a drowning.