Why is it that I can add movies to my watchlist but not TV series episodes?
Works fine for me… are you trying to add a show or maybe seasons or episodes? IIRC you can only add entire shows.
can’t add individual episodes.
I fail to see why you can’t add individual episodes. But the Add to Watchlist is not present in the dropdown
But it is for a Movies
(Sorry but cell phones are not my main computing device)
Your 1st screenshot (“Superman & Lois”, show level):
1st button next to the Play button
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I understand now that that is the button to push. However, it’s still not listed in the drop-down menu as it is for Movies. IMHO that’s a bug and an easy one to fix at that!
Plus I still do not understand why I should be forced to add the whole series of shows to the watchlist instead of having the capability to add individual episodes. For example, I might want to watch an episode of Superman & Lois and then a movie and then an episode of some other series.
It’s actually the same behavior:
- if you access a show or movie from the library view, you can find the
Add to Watchlistoption in their context menu (⋮) - if you’re on the details page of a movie or show, the
Add to Watchlistaction is represented by the button highlighted in my previous post.
My point is that it should always be in the drop-down menu. Sometimes people have little clue to look at some icon and discern what it’s trying to represent. And think about it - nobody would die if it were added to the menu. The “library view” vs “details page” is a meaningless distinction from an end-user perspective.
Broken record here: The reason it isn’t showing up for you in the drop down for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is because that entry is not for the show itself, but a single episode. Since you cannot add single episodes or seasons, it makes sense to not show up.
However, thinking now, it ought to still be an option. Since you CANNOT add an episode or season to a watchlist, it makes sense that the option to “Add SHOW to watchlist” ought to be an option anyway on season/episode level. This idea can be extended out to the details panel of an episode, allowing a button to add of the entire SHOW to a watchlist.
Again, I fail to see why you can’t add a single episode to the watchlist. In fact, I see it as a very useful addition should that addition be made. Here’s a current example - I see, under Continue Watching, that there’s the This is Us show that I’d like to watch the next episode. But also there just came in Star Trek - Strange New Worlds and The Orville. So I’d like to watch the next episode of those three shows. Show of making a playlist, how would I accomplish this feat? I mean the watchlist is right there and I could easily add three non-adjacent movies to the watchlist with ease - I just can’t do the same for individual episodes of shows. Seems like a dumb limitation to me.
Also, I question the utility of adding a whole show to a watchlist. I don’t know anybody that watches a whole show from start to finish before wanting to watch any other content.
just start watching it. You can’t “continue” watching something until you start watching it.
the watch list is for “hey there is this new show that is coming out or i have access to on a server i might like to start watching it. I’ll add it to my watch list so i remember later.”
if you only want to remember to watch a single random episode then you would need to add to a playlist.
and to be clear it is not there for episodes/seasons because then folks will expect single episodes to show up in watchlist
I’m not sure why you’re not understanding what I’m trying to explain I’m also not sure why Plex is imposing these seemingly arbitrary limitations. I’m not trying to continue watching something I haven’t started watching. I don’t know where you got that notion. Instead, I explained to you an actual scenario that I have right now. Right now I have This is Us, Star Trek - Strange New Worlds, and The Orville on my Continue Watching list. I have been watching all of them and I’m at different seasons and episodes of each series. They are just not in order. I wish to throw the next episodes of each show in a list somewhere. I’m sure this is a very common use case. The watchlist is right there next to Recommended. I view the watchlist like the Watch Later list on YouTube. Sure I could create a new playlist to add these to but then I have to clean up later and remove that list.
I don’t see why the watchlist needs to be limited to a list for new shows or shows I just might want to watch in the future. If that’s its true function it’d be better named “Reminder list” or something like that. And yes I expect the watchlist to be a list of movies, episodes, or whatever. IOW a single video file be it classified as a “movie” or an “episode” of a show. What’s the difference really? One’s an hour and the others 2 hours? One continues to have new episodes and the other needs to wait for somebody in Hollywood to think maybe it’s time to do a sequel? Why does that matter to me the end-user?
Bonus points if the watchlist removes entries after you watch them, ya know, kinda list podcasts (oops podcasts seems to be a dirty word here at Plex 
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I’m not really sure what this means. why would they not be in order. please explain
that is literally what continue watching is. the next episode or the one you are currently watching.
WeCrashed, Somewhere Over…, and Obi-Wan Denobi are between This is Us and Star Trek: Strange… AFAICT I can’t arrange that list.
Why does it matter what order they are in? Are you trying get those next episodes of those particular shows to auto play back to back ?
Yes, as I already stated. I assumed I could throw them on the watchlist in order.
That just isn’t what the watchlist nor CW was designed for. In either case if you start or continue watching a show the auto play will play the next episode of that show if it exists not the next episode of a different show. AFAIK If you finish watching the last episode you have of a show it will just stop playback not start the next episode of a different show in CW
I know. If it was designed for and implemented like that I wouldn’t post here.
I know, that’s why I was looking to watchlist to solve that problem. To me, a watchlist is a list that I can put anything on and also arrange. But not here which is surprising and why I posted in the first place. I think you can admit, it would be useful if implemented that way. And I’m still waiting for a good reason why adding individual episodes (and the lack of drag and drop to arrange things) have not be implemented in that fashion.
Indeed. Just seems to me to be a no-brainer to implement a queue of what to watch next. And not one that is restricted to just what Plex things I want to watch next and which order I want to watch it but rather a list I can control better.
