I was very disappointed because my time was very limited that night. I couldn’t watch it later, my only free time was at that very hour.
However, I found out later it was not a connection problem on my end. Netflix was completely inaccessible to everyone in my area. And then this morning, I found this in my inbox:

No codes to enter
No passwords to type
No hoops to jump through at all.
One click of the link and I’m done. Now that’s the way to handle it!

If only the big-mega-evil-corp ISPs were 1/10th as customer focused. I heart you good ol’ Netflix
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