why does netflix say an episode is unavailable
Report Abuse. They aren't available to watch online either, most likely. Those movies you can't watch I guess just haven't been loaded onto the Netflix server. Why they don't I'm not sure. The simplest answer for new movies it that they haven't been released to dvd yet, so its not possible to put them on Netflix. Also, some older, but big name, movies aren't available to watch instantly either.