You know how sometimes a television show returns for a new season with an altered opening credit sequence, and the experience is strangely disorienting? On one hand the show sports the same logo it did before, and you recognize some of the characters and scenes from the show you know and love. But there are also new faces posing from the camera, and clips of new characters interacting with veterans in footage that has never aired, and so the whole thing feels phony — phony even though the show is fiction, and it was never anything more than what its creators said it was at the time.
Anyway, that’s how I felt watching this clip of studio footage from what James Mercer is still calling the Shins.
