Surprising. Next you'll tell me that not even Netflix works in Lynx or something crazy like that.

Honestly, there is no reason why Netflix shouldn't allow streaming over telnet. It works for Starwars after all.

Netflix requires DRM shitware.

It would be really cool if they offered a (obviously) non DRM'ed ASCII art version of movies over telnet! :)

I thought the StarWars telnet went offline? :/

If you want a replacement you can use `telnet telehack.com` and then run `starwars`. If you want it in a single command you can do something like `zsh -c '{ sleep 1; echo starwars; sleep 10000; } | nc -c telehack.com 23'`.

What is actually sad is that I can't watch Netflix using something like VLC.

It makes me think that "web apps" ought to have a distinctive dotted suffix like a file extension, like "example.com/main.app", to set expectations with the user.