HBO Max adds a shuffle button for TV episodes

Having a tough time finding which episode of Mates or Control Your Enthusiasm you’d like to stream? Now you can let opportunity decide, with HBO Max rolling out a shuffle button for Television displays.

Out there only for all those HBO subscribers streaming on a desktop browser, these kinds of as Chrome or Safari, the new shuffle button seems on the element website page of picked Television set shows on the streaming service.

Among the reveals you can shuffle are Mates, Suppress Your Enthusiasm, The Big Bang Principle, Looney Tunes, Rick & Morty, and Whose Line is it In any case.

HBO Max’s new shuffle button comes much less than a yr right after Netflix at last released its possess “Play Something” button, which lets Netflix decide on a film or show centered on your viewing behaviors.

But whilst Netflix’s “Play Something” characteristic will decide any demonstrate or film at random (or with assistance from the Netflix’s vaunted algorithm), the HBO Max shuffle button will only shuffle episodes in a individual series to give people “some context into the content material they will be demonstrated,” the streamer explained. (By the way, before incarnations of Netflix’s shuffle button worked in a comparable method to HBO Max’s model, shuffling only episodes of a supplied Television set collection.)

For now, the HBO Max shuffle button will only show up for desktop consumers. When requested if the function would appear to other platforms, an HBO Max rep replied: “We will watch usage and hope to increase the featuring on tablet, cellular, and connected TVs down the highway.”

Besides the reveals stated earlier, other HBO Max series that are finding a shuffle button include Anthony Bourdain: Pieces Not known, Chapelle Display, ER, Fresh new Prince, Full Property, Sesame Avenue, South Park, The Mentalist, Two and a 50 percent Adult males, and Young Sheldon.

HBO Max not too long ago built headlines with the information that it will eventually merge with Discovery+, adhering to the corporate merger of dad or mum businesses WarnerMedia and Discovery.