Flixed Introduces ShuffleFlix as Their Own Netflix Random Episode Button

If you like watching episodic TV shows such as The Office or The I.T. Crowd, you probably don’t care about what order you watch the episodes in sometimes. I know I like to put I.T. Crowd on while working on projects like soldering, but I don’t want to take the time to figure out which episode I want to start with.

A few months ago, I found out that Netflix was already testing a random episode feature with some Android users, but we haven’t really heard anything more about it. Well, Flixed couldn’t wait any longer. The website that specializes in helping people get rid of cable has created two extensions for Google Chrome. A Hulu Random Episode Button and ShuffleFlix which is a Netflix Random Episode Button. Once you install the extension (at your own risk) you can choose a show and by the list of episodes that you can access will be a new shuffle button that goes to a random episode.

I’ve been playing around with these and only have one minor annoyance. It picks up right where you left off the last time you were watching that particular episode. Of course, this I think is simply because that’s what Netflix would do, but it can be annoying if you stopped an episode just before the credits. It’s easy enough to rewind the episode yourself that it’s no big deal, though.

If you use an app to watch Netflix, you still won’t be able to access this feature. However, if you watch Netflix on a browser, you can thank Flixed for these fine extensions.