Netflix is testing a ‘Shuffle’ button, because you’re tired of picking what to watch

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Does your Netflix home awning -- you know, the one with your user profiles -- now have a "Shuffle Play" button?

That's because Netflix is admittedly planning to bring a shuffle fondness to its congeries of well-reasoned movies as well as TV shows, letting you defend yet another brannigan with your spouse/housemate/partner/etc cheat-on what you'll be watching this evening. The company tells us it's admittedly been running this test back July.

Interesting new fondness @netflix ... however what maternal of insane person neutral says, "yolo, let's circuit the Netflix wheel of fortune" pic.twitter.com/6WDJrmd7pG

-- Turner Levison (@TurnerLevison) August 18, 2020

The company is already testing a few potential ways the fondness nimbleness look, including the "Play Something" variant that my stewardess Julia Alexander snapped a quick picture of below. However it sounds like it's not just an experiment: "The materiality is to admittedly productize something," a spokesperson told Variety. The company tells us it's rejected close-at-hand so far on "TV devices." I didn't see it on my Roku.

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When Julia gave the "Play Something" chin a spin, it infernal up an episode of Netflix's Umbrella Academy with the caption "because you watched Spider-Man." (Both are cheat-on comic file superheroes as well as -- depending on which Spider-Man we're talking about, Julia? -- fairly well received, so I guesswork that makes plenary sense.)

TechCrunch seems to have spotted the test first; as it credibility out, Netflix previously tested a feature that'd show you a random episode of a specific TV series. This sounds far increasingly useful.

"We run these tests in diverse countries as well as for diverse periods of time - as well as rejected operate them broadly close-at-hand if bodies find them useful," a Netflix rep tells us.

Update, 8:02PM ET: Added elucidate from Netflix.