Some Netflix subscribers do not have access to all the platform programs, including this very popular series ten years ago.
It’s rare, but it happens: you spend hours scrolling on streaming platforms, before falling back on Netflix. You have found the film or the series of your dreams for the evening or the coming week. But when you click on the viewing button, an error message appears: “not available”. Is this situation familiar to you? It occurs when titles are restricted from the catalog to certain subscribers.
And this is currently the case with one of the most popular series of the 2010s, which had attracted the public with its epic and sometimes violent adventures. If you have subscribed to the subscription with advertisements, which is also the cheapest that the streaming platform offers, the six seasons of this series are simply blocked. The reason: “Restrictions related to licenses”, explains the platform on its aid center. An inconvenience linked to partnerships established with certain studios or content providers to obtain diffusion rights.
“Not available in advertising offers due to license -related restrictions”, here is the message you can read if you want to look Vikings. Broadcast from 2013 to 2020, this epic series conquered the public by telling the political conflicts and the wars of the Viking Ragnar chief and the rest of his clan, out of six seasons.
Hailed by the public and the criticism, the saga is however extremely popular. This is evidenced by the opinions of the spectators on the various aggregators of criticism: Vikings Receives the 93% note on Rotten Tomatoes, 7.4/10 on critical sense, or 4.4/5 on Allociné. But how do you look at it on Netflix? It’s simple, but more expensive than the subscription with advertising. It is indeed necessary to subscribe to one of the other two offers: the standard which costs 13.49 euros per month or the Premium, at 19.99 euros per month. Otherwise, you have to go to the VOD platforms, where the six seasons are sometimes available for purchase or rental. Unless you fall back on the rest of the Netflix catalog …
Vikings is not the only blocked program for subscribers of the offer with Netflix advertisements. To recognize them, a red padlock was affixed at the top right of the sticker. Fortunately, the vast majority of the very large catalog of the streaming platform remains accessible to the greatest world. What find his happiness anyway.