Apple TV issues

I was supposed to have a relaxing evening to myself. Kids and wife are at a musical. Decided to watch Looper on Apple TV. 1.5 hours later I still haven't watched the movie. Apple TV gave same error repeatedly, "Unable to connect to server at this time". I can stream trailers, I can stream from iTunes on iMac in the house but I could not rent the movie. I then switched to iTunes on my iMac and started downloading the rental hoping I could stream it from the iMac to my Apple TV. The download said it would take 24 minutes but an hour later I was still waiting. I tried logging out of the Apple TV but now I can't log back in. Apple TV support was useless. They told me to send an email. I'm not sure what good that will do me since it's 9:30 PM and I still haven't heard back from them. I'm not going to sit and watch a 2 hour movie in front of a 21" iMac.