Thousands of viewers were met with error screens instead of Eleven and the gang as Netflix briefly went down during the global premiere of the final season of “Stranger Things.”
The outage occurred right as the highly anticipated season dropped worldwide, with streaming trackers showing a surge in error reports within minutes of release. Many users said the app froze on loading screens or returned playback errors when they tried to start the first episode.
The issue was resolved shortly after, and Netflix service returned to normal. The platform did not immediately comment on the cause of the outage, but the timing suggests the crash coincided with a massive spike in viewer demand.
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“Stranger Things,” which debuted in 2016, remains one of Netflix’s most-watched and most culturally influential series. The final season is being released in multiple parts, concluding the story that helped define Netflix’s streaming-era dominance.
The brief outage underscored the show’s continued popularity, even in its final chapter, as fans across the globe rushed online to start the new season the moment it went live.
