Stop scrapping IMDB Storyline Summaries for Plex Metadata

Going to try and be constructive here … Lets take Alien: Earth and S01E02. Within plex the summary metadata is as follows:

This is taken directly from the Storyline review on IMDB …

… and is a line by line summary of exactly what happens within the episodes, spoilers and all. This is BAD!

Now… go and look at the overall summary on IMDB, TMDB and TVDB and you will see the following …

IMDB:

TMDB:

TVDB:

… which is a much more vague and spoiler free summary of what happens.

PLEX PLEASE REVIEW HOW YOU PULL & SCORE YOUR METADATA.

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In case anyone thinks this is a isolated case here is another example with Daredevil: Born Again S01E03:

Plex - full spoiler comment with a episode breakdown:

IMDB:

TMDB:

TVDB:

Your current metadata scrapping is fundamental broken …

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