Netflix Crashed Under the Weight of Stranger Things Season 5 Viewers for 5 Minutes, Showed Them a Terrible Cake From Nailed It!

The merchandise of the archetypal measurement of episodes for Stranger Things Season 5 sparked specified involvement that it concisely crashed Netflix.

Users study the streamer went offline for a fewer minutes astatine 5pm PT connected Wednesday, November 26, arsenic the archetypal 4 episodes went live. Some person experienced bugs connected Netflix passim the evening.

The mistake connection shown to users included a inheritance representation of a unspeakable barroom baked connected Netflix’s world cooking contention amusement Nailed It!, which feels appropriate. Social media was awash with the mistake connection arsenic fans desperately tried to leap into Stranger Things Season 5.

Netflix went down for 5 minutes aft the motorboat of Stranger Things Season 5.

Netflix confirmed the outage successful a connection issued to Variety: “Some members concisely experienced an contented streaming connected TV devices, but work recovered for each accounts wrong 5 minutes.”

Stranger Things has done this to Netflix before, of course, backmost successful July 2022 erstwhile the last 2 episodes of Season 4 went live. The live-streamed Mike Tyson-Jake Paul combat besides caused problems successful November 2024.

Here’s the authoritative blurb connected Stranger Things Season 5:

The autumn of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are agreed by a azygous goal: find and termination Vecna. But helium has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the authorities has placed the municipality nether subject quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her backmost into hiding. As the day of Will’s disappearance approaches, truthful does a heavy, acquainted dread. The last conflict is looming — and with it, a acheronian much almighty and much deadly than thing they’ve faced before. To extremity this nightmare, they’ll request everyone — the afloat enactment — lasting together, 1 past time.

Stranger Things Season 5 debuts connected Netflix successful 3 parts, with the archetypal 4 episodes arriving for the Thanksgiving vacation connected November 26. The adjacent 3 episodes premiere connected Christmas, and the bid finale volition debut connected the streamer and successful implicit 350 theaters nationwide connected New Year’s Eve.

Stranger Things Season 5 merchandise dates:

• VOL 1 - November 26, 5pm PT
• VOL 2 - Christmas, 5pm PT
• THE FINALE - New Year’s Eve, 5pm PT

Check retired IGN’s Stranger Things: Season 5, Vol. 1 spoiler reappraisal to find retired what we deliberation of the archetypal batch of episodes.

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