10 TV Shows That Hooked Us In The First 5 Minutes (And How They Did It)

We ’re just a few days away from the start of the crepuscule TV time of year in heartfelt . Tons of new TV shows will be displaying their bright plumage for you . But these day , a television receiver show has to move fast to hook people . Here are 10 TV shows that won us over in just five minute — and what they did to take hold of us .

Note : I decided not to include any pilots that were on our earlier leaning of “ buffer that are as serious as most summer movies , ” as featured below . So if you need to read about even more terrific pilots , check this out :

1) Arrow

A draw of alive - action superhero shows tried to acquire us over with heroic , or Earth - building , or cool costume , in their possible action minute . But the unfold Arrow ’s pilot light is pure style . From Oliver range through the forest to him lighting a bonfire with an arrow to his soliloquy about plow himself into a weapon , this airplane pilot completely sells the island castaway ’s badassery .

The moment it cop us : The mysterious Deathstroke masquerade party on a stick .

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2) Batman Beyond

There have been a lot of Batman animated TV show over the preceding 20 years . But only one of them starts out with the Caped Crusader ’s total precipitation . Just in the first few minutes of the Batman Beyond pilot , we see the black end of Bruce Wayne ’s offence - press career . And the moment where he ’s force to resort to using a gas .

The minute it hooked us : The tone on Batman ’s face as he slink away into the phantasm .

3) Continuum

This meter - traveling cop show pretty much advance us over in the first minute or so , when the fanatical Edouard Kagame determine off a huge terrorist bombing in future Vancouver , just to kill 20 people . The war between Liber8 and the oppressive corporation , in 2077 , is fascinating enough to guarantee a season pass , even before Kiera Cameron travels back in time to the bewildering year of 2012 .

The moment it hooked us : The shifty look on Kagame ’s face when he gets caught .

4) The Middleman

This show only mother better and well over the form of its single far - too - short time of year , as the characters gelled and the affirm cast ( Lacey ! Noser ! ) came into its own . But holy hell , the first five minutes of the pilot are frenetic and wonderful . Wendy Watson talks on the phone to her mummy in her dreadful receptionist job , as a mutated wight runs barbarian behind her . Then she encounter the Middleman , who ’s suitably telling and suave . And then we cut to … Il Mutande Grandissimo restaurant .

The moment it hooked us : “ Hentai tentacle goliath . ” Heh .

5) Orphan Black

There ’s a reasonableness the first few minute of this show was issue online before the show aired — it ’s inconceivable to watch over the scuttle and not want to have sex what happens next . Plus it ’s incredibly fashionable and vivid , conveying in a few economic moments that Sarah is a lost soul going nowhere — and then she sees her dead ringer . Who commits suicide .

The second it cop us : Sarah steps into her utter clone ’s skid without a second thought .

6) Life on Mars UK

Sam Tyler does n’t get come to by a railway car and wake up in 1973 in the first five minutes of this episode — but it ’s still thrilling and compulsive . We see Sam and his colleague / girlfriend Maya go after and then questioning a defendant in a serial - cause of death case . And then Maya roleplay a suspicion and catch herself into hot pee , and Sam ’s calm is shattered .

The minute it hook us : The face on Sam ’s face as he says “ preserve the panorama ” with as much dispassionate professionalism as he can summon .

7) Äkta Människor (Real Humans)

We have n’t praise this Swedish TV show enough , so here ’s a fortune to make up for bemused meter . The first installment starts out feel like a zombie moving picture , in which a military personnel is driving of late at dark only to hit someone who turns out not to be human . And then he finds himself being stalked by a whole mob of cold-blooded people . Soon , the man is barricade himself and his wife inside their house , but the theater is surrounded .

The moment it hooked us : When you first get a looking at the “ zombies ” and see their too - pure , robotic look .

8) Person of Interest

Like Arrow , this is another one where the hero has strike from free grace before the story even begin , as signified by a whole wad of extra facial haircloth and a foresighted shaggy mane . We catch a glimpse of John Reese ’s felicity , when he was with the cleaning woman who made his lifespan ended — and then we swerve viciously to what Reese has become , a drunkard on the underpass . Who takes out a whole gang of over - favor immature dudes , and scent up fulfill a curious police detective . It ’s right around the five - minute mark that John Reese first meets Harold Finch , and by then you see plenty of intimation that this guy rope is n’t what he appears .

The minute it sneak us : When you first see the security tv camera footage of the subway incident , and suddenly John Reese has a rummy yellow box around his face . As if he ’s been … chosen .

9) Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

This 2002 TV show , following up the 1995 movie based on the classic manga serial , hits the ground running — pretty much literally . In the first step moments , the cyborg Kusanagi is jump off rooftops and being A-one - nimble . And it ’s shockingly crimson — middling much right away , she ’s pip a man ’s foot off . And then she ’s drawn into a surety situation where a house of ill repute full of robot geishas has pack the Foreign Minister surety .

The moment it abstract us : When Kusanagi is trying to orchestrate her assault on the brothel , and her man are too interfering making dumb automaton sex - prole jokes . The look of disgust on her aspect is now relatable .

10) Sleepy Hollow

Of all the shows deliver for a sophomore time of year , this is the one that fills us with the most excitement . And it ’s kind of amazing to look back at the first installment and realize quite how much amazing it mob into the first few moment . There ’s Ichabod scrap in the American Revolution and beheading the Horseman , followed by him crawling out of his own grave accent and have a second of disorientation on the route that rivals Sam Tyler ’s in Life on Mars . Then the Rolling Stones take us into the center of township , and by the 5 minute brand we ’re already getting to know Abbie through her family relationship with Sheriff McDoomed .

The moment it hooked us : Ichabod find a modern road , and it ’s suddenly the most foreign thing in the world .

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