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The new default and Plex-preferred media agents are the Plex Series and Plex Movie agents for TV series and movies, respectively. These agents sometimes underperform in terms of metadata quality, particularly when it comes to synopses. Example:
Stranger Things (2016) show synopsis from Plex Series agent:
In a small town where everyone knows everyone, a peculiar incident starts a chain of events that leads to a child’s disappearance, which begins to tear at the fabric of an otherwise-peaceful community. Dark government agencies and seemingly malevolent supernatural forces converge on the town, while a few of the locals begin to understand that more is going on than meets the eye.
Not awful, but (subjectively) not as clean as this from The TV Database:
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
See also this Season 1, Episode 2 synopsis from Plex Series:
As Will is still missing, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas hide the girl in Mike’s house and questions if she knows anything relative to Will’s disappearance; Joyce makes contact with the police when she receives a strange phone call; Nancy and Barb attend Steve’s party.
It’s not even grammatically correct (bolded), much less as concise and clear as TVDB’s entry:
Lucas, Mike and Dustin try to talk to the girl they found in the woods. Hopper questions an anxious Joyce about an unsettling phone call.
Finally, here’s an example for the film Scream (1996).
Plex Movie:
In the small town of Woodsboro, California, a masked killer known as Ghostface begins murdering high school students, and a group of friends must use their knowledge of horror movies to unmask the killer.
That’s not even quite right. Maybe you can make a case that Randy uses his horror movie knowledge to point some fingers, but it’s tangential and mostly inaccurate as a description of the movie.
The Movie Database:
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
Far more accurate to anyone who has seen this film. We need to be able to select “legacy” agents without a dashboard alert that we’re ~UsInG a LeGaCy AgEnT~ that needs to be updated -OR- users should be able to contribute to and fix the Plex default agent metadata. This ain’t it.
