The Wildcard character
Explorers

The Wildcard

You'll start anything once. Predictability is the only thing you won't watch.

Your queue is a coin flip you're happy to lose.

You don't browse, you gamble. You've already hit play on something with no poster and a title you can't pronounce, because surprise is your favorite genre and a midnight find beats any plan.

Your identity

What this says about you

How you love

You fall fast for the new and surprising, and you keep things lively for everyone near you.

How you handle stress

You reset with a new plan or new scenery, and that fresh start really works for you.

As a friend

You're the one who pulls people out of their ruts with the plan nobody else would make.

How you decide

You decide fast and you're often right, trusting instinct where others stall.

What you bring

Your strengths

·

Allergic to the algorithm

The second a feed thinks it has you figured out, you swerve, and that's where your best finds live.

·

Zero sunk-cost guilt

You quit a dud twenty minutes in and feel only relief, so your hours go to things that earn them.

·

Always first there

You find the weird foreign thriller before it trends, and people learn to trust your tips.

Where you stretch

Your growth edges

·

Stay past episode three

Some great shows hit their stride right after you'd normally bail, so let one earn it.

·

Try a rewatch

A second viewing can turn a fun surprise into a real favorite, so give one a return trip.

·

Find a home corner

Pick one genre to dig deep into, and enjoy the thrill of knowing it inside out.

How you watch

You decide in ten seconds and bounce from a documentary to a cartoon to a horror film in one night. The only pattern in your history is that it refuses to have one.

Use it well

Your watchlist strategy

Keep stuffing your list with the off-genre and unrecommended, because that randomness is your edge. Add one rule: one show a month you're not allowed to quit.

Compatibility

Who you watch well with

Best matches

Intriguing clash

You're the best chaos a watch party can have. Genre Nomads match your range; Hidden Gem Hunters feed you the unrecommended swings you live for. A Comfort Rewatcher wants the known, you want the never-seen, and you'll combust every time.

On screen

Characters who are you

Rick Sanchez

Rick and Morty

Drags everyone through a different reality every episode, abandons each adventure the second it bores him, allergic to anything predictable or settled.

The Doctor

Doctor Who

Never the same face, never the same place twice, sprints from one impulse to the next, staying still is the one thing they can't do.

Black Mirror

Black Mirror

A new world, tone, and cast every episode, the anthology that promises you'll never get the same thing twice. Surprise is the format.

Jake Peralta

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Runs on impulse and the thrill of the unplanned, bored by routine, chasing the next exciting bit before finishing the last one.

Phil Connors

Groundhog Day

Given infinite repetition, he reacts by trying everything once, wildcard energy of a man treating life itself as a sandbox to experiment in.

Eleven

Stranger Things

Throws herself into every unknown headfirst, no manual, no plan, pure instinct, the curiosity that walks toward the strange thing instead of away.

Your signature genres

Sci-FiHorrorThrillerAnimationDocumentaryComedyMystery
Flickd app icon

Get picks like these, made for you

Flickd learns your taste and hands you the perfect movie or show every night, only on the streaming services you already pay for.

Download on the App Store