Server Version#: 1.42.2.10156 (edited: incorrect version) 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. Examp…

Most of my episode synopses now are awfully written, grammatically incorrect, full of spoilers and seemingly written by AI or total f***wits.

Movie descriptions come from imdb.

Not entirely. Some do. The Breakfast Club (1985) according to Plex, apparently scraped from TMDB: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Br…

I agree that many of these have the air of being written by AI. ▶ At least the Plex Movie description of Scream (1996) isn’t as bad as Hulu’s…

Refreshed the metadata before watching the Stranger Things finale and it completely spoiled the episode.

But the Internet told me ruining Stranger Things was the Duffer brothers’ job! :enraged_face: I joke, but your situation is really annoying.

So can we at least please get Stranger Things aligned with TVDB? The current chosen metadata is not good, and as another commenter stated, it contains spoilers.

Plex Series agent metadata is poor quality compared to legacy agents

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

dokuro January 7, 2026, 9:13pm 5

Metadata is a mess and has been for a long time Stop scrapping IMDB Storyline Summaries for Plex Metadata.

Hoping nfo support in plex when it comes gives us better control as plex have no intention of changing what they have today.

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Plex Series agent metadata is poor quality compared to legacy agents

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