Try Plex Dancing the entire Specials directory after renaming the files. It removes cached metadata, etc from Plex for the old file names.
See Television Specials section of Naming and Organizing Your TV Show Files.
Shows sometimes air “specials” or other content that isn’t part of the standard season. “Specials” episodes are always part of season zero (i.e. season number “00”) and should be placed inside a folder named either Season 00 or Specials .
- /TV Shows/ShowName/Specials/ShowName – s00e13 – Optional_Info.ext
