Stranger Things, The Walking Dead, and Iron Fist all let me skip ahead with the quick click of a button, but It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and The X-Files didn’t give me the same choice.
The buzz around series like Stranger Things and The Walking Dead definitely guarantee that plenty of people will be checking them out, so Netflix would likely get a much larger sample size than they’d get with Always Sunny or The X-Files.
Upon further investigation, I discovered that the “skip intro” window doesn’t pop up before the credits for every single show.
It’s possible that Netflix is simply quietly trying out the feature with a few select shows.