HBO Max adds a shuffle button for TV episodes

Obtaining a challenging time selecting which episode of Good friends or Curb Your Enthusiasm you’d like to stream? Now you can allow prospect determine, with HBO Max rolling out a shuffle button for Tv shows.

Accessible only for individuals HBO subscribers streaming on a desktop browser, this sort of as Chrome or Safari, the new shuffle button appears on the detail page of chosen Television displays on the streaming provider.

Amid the reveals you can shuffle are Close friends, Control Your Enthusiasm, The Huge Bang Idea, Looney Tunes, Rick & Morty, and Whose Line is it In any case.

HBO Max’s new shuffle button comes considerably less than a calendar year following Netflix last but not least introduced its very own “Play Something” button, which lets Netflix decide a movie or display based mostly on your viewing behavior.

But although Netflix’s “Play Something” feature will decide any show or movie at random (or with enable from the Netflix’s vaunted algorithm), the HBO Max shuffle button will only shuffle episodes inside of a certain collection to give users “some context into the information they will be shown,” the streamer explained. (By the way, earlier incarnations of Netflix’s shuffle button labored in a comparable fashion to HBO Max’s model, shuffling only episodes of a provided Tv set series.)

For now, the HBO Max shuffle button will only look for desktop people. When requested if the feature would occur to other platforms, an HBO Max rep replied: “We will observe usage and hope to grow the offering on tablet, cell, and linked TVs down the road.”

Other than the reveals outlined earlier, other HBO Max sequence that are acquiring a shuffle button include Anthony Bourdain: Elements Mysterious, Chapelle Exhibit, ER, Fresh new Prince, Complete Household, Sesame Street, South Park, The Mentalist, Two and a 50 % Guys, and Young Sheldon.

HBO Max recently manufactured headlines with the news that it will at some point merge with Discovery+, next the company merger of parent corporations WarnerMedia and Discovery.