10 TV Moments That Deserve the Minimalist Poster Treatment
Some TV scenes are already perfect. Others get better when you strip them down to the bare essentials — a single colour, a silhouette, an object that says it all. That’s the magic of minimalist poster design.
We’ve picked ten moments from modern TV that could be reduced, refined, and turned into the kind of wall art you’d frame without hesitation.
1. The Red Wedding Reveal – Game of Thrones
Not the blood or the chaos — just the two hands clasping under the table, the faint edge of a dagger. That’s all it takes to feel the gut punch again.
2. Gus Fring Adjusting His Tie – Breaking Bad
Half his face gone, but he’s still neat about it. In minimalist form, you’d only need the straightened knot and a sliver of red.
3. “I Want to Believe” Poster – The X-Files
Already iconic, but imagine it stripped to a dark sky, a single saucer shape, and clean white type.
4. Eleven and the Waffle – Stranger Things
One Eggo, centred on a flat pastel background. Fans would get it instantly.
5. BoJack in the Pool – BoJack Horseman
Silhouette of a figure floating face-up, sunglasses just breaking the surface. Melancholy without saying a word.
6. The Staircase Walk – Succession
Three figures in suits, seen only from the knees down, stepping onto marble stairs. Pure power play.
7. The Coffee Cup – Twin Peaks
A plain white cup with a single ring of coffee stain on the saucer. Simple, strange, and perfectly Lynchian.
8. Cigarette and Streetlamp – Mad Men
Don Draper in silhouette, cigarette glowing, light pooling under a lone streetlamp. You don’t need the face to know the man.
9. Fleabag and the Confessional – Fleabag
An empty wooden confessional booth against a plain wall. The absence is the point.
10. The Pie – Killing Eve
A perfect circle on a plate, deep red centre. Beautiful, unsettling, and totally Eve.
Minimalist posters work because they trust the viewer to bring the rest. They give you just enough to recognise the moment, and the rest is memory.
If you want to see how we’ve done this with other scenes, take a look at the Raven & Ink collection.