Netflix Reports Issues with Streaming as Viewers Binge-Watch 'Luke Cage'

Netflix(NEW YORK) — Many Marvel fans hoping to watch the newly-released Luke Cage series on Netflix Saturday were outraged to learn about an outage.

According to a tweet from Netflix, there were “streaming issues” on Saturday afternoon and the service was “working quickly” to resolve them.

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

Some Luke Cage viewers took their complaints to Twitter saying Netflix had disrupted their plans to binge-watch the new series over the weekend.

The show’s Twitter page even tried to calm the fans.

Got some heroes at #Netflix fixing things. They’re all over it. Meantime, keep this in mind. #LukeCage pic.twitter.com/eUPkE8dH5H

— Luke Cage (@LukeCage) October 1, 2016

A few hours later when the problems appeared to be resolved, the streaming service tweeted: “Not all heroes wear capes. Engineers to the rescue. We’re back. @Netflixhelps”

Not all heroes wear capes. Engineers to the rescue. We’re back. @Netflixhelps pic.twitter.com/WKCIufYU36

— Netflix US (@netflix) October 1, 2016

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