Blame it on Vecna.
Netflix’s streaming service was unavailable for a brief period early Friday after the highly anticipated release of the final two episodes of “Stranger Things 4.”
According to global uptime-monitoring site Downdetector.com, users reports of problems with Netflix spiked right around 3:01 a.m. ET — when the “Stranger Things 4” Volume 2 went live. Complaints about errors with Netflix peaked at more than 15,000 at the top of the hour, before the situation seemed to be resolved within a half hour.
“Stranger Things 4” already has set the record as the No. 1 English-language series on the service within its first four weeks of release, as reported by Netflix based on total hours watched. The two episodes in Season 4 Volume 2 clock in at nearly four hours of runtime total: Episode 8 is 85 minutes and Episode 9 is 150 minutes.
Other streaming services have struggled to stay up during extremely high demand. For example, HBO Max suffered outages with the finale of “Euphoria” Season 2 earlier this year and the final episode of limited series “Mare of Easttown” in May 2021.
Early Friday, before the technical issues were apparently resolved, Netflix subscribers worldwide took to social media to voice frustration — and share Vecna-related memes — at not being able to access the service.
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