New show ’Luke Cage’ causes Netflix 2-hour crash

Luke Cage poster. Photo from Netflix/Facebook

Much to the dismay of binge watchers everywhere, Netflix suffered an unlikely outage over the weekend, and the popular streaming service may have found the culprit—”Luke Cage.”

According to Entertainment.ie some parts of the US, the UK and Ireland reported that Netflix servers were down for about two and a half hours on Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

Coincidentally, the interruption came a day after “Marvel’s Luke Cage,” a new superhero flick featuring a man with indestructible and impenetrable skin, debuted its 13-episode first season.

Netflix refused to respond to requests for comment, but was quick to acknowledge the problem on its Twitter page.

Hi all – we are aware of streaming issues and we are working quickly to solve them. We will update you when they are resolved.

— Netflix CS (@Netflixhelps) October 1, 2016

The internet quickly went into a speculation that Netflix was unable to the cope with the influx of users who were all trying to access the highly anticipated show at the same time.

It is also worth noting that the internet-television pioneer added several classic movies to its library on Oct. 1, including “Titanic” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

The Netflix social media team, meanwhile, took the opportunity to make fun of the disruption by using the official accounts for both “Jessica Jones” and “Luke Cage” by tweeting about it coinciding with the show’s release.

Had nothing to do with the outage. Stop asking. pic.twitter.com/x8PFrVjH7O

— Jessica Jones (@JessicaJones) October 2, 2016

Netflix fixing their servers right now like… #LukeCage # pic.twitter.com/tby2NVUW4L

— Luke Cage (@LukeCage) October 1, 2016

As of this writing, normal service has been resumed and Netflix is back up and working. Khristian Ibarrola