--- title: Netflix Roulette App Helps Decide What Movie or TV Show to Stream description: Netflix Roulette App helps decide what movie or TV show to stream. canonical: https://time.com/81153/netflix-roulette-app/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-29T16:49:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:13.774Z og:title: Netflix Roulette App Helps Decide What Movie or TV Show to Stream og:description: Netflix Roulette App helps decide what movie or TV show to stream. og:url: https://time.com/81153/netflix-roulette-app/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67ee0a2ddb5ebcb6/69868cf555a8595f24a80930/464222723.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Netflix Illustrations Ahead Of Earnings og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Netflix Roulette App Helps Decide What Movie or TV Show to Stream twitter:description: Netflix Roulette App helps decide what movie or TV show to stream. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67ee0a2ddb5ebcb6/69868cf555a8595f24a80930/464222723.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Can't Decide What to Watch on Netflix? 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You can also specify if you want just movies, just TV shows or both, and if you want results with higher ratings. But beware: if you don’t like the suggestion, you can spin again (and again, and again), and then you could end up falling down the same old rabbit hole that got you to Netflix Roulette in the first place. So you should probably commit to whatever you get on the very first try. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/81153/netflix-roulette-app/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/81153/netflix-roulette-app/"},"headline":"Can't Decide What to Watch on Netflix? 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