Thank you both for responding so quickly. I tried changing the season name as suggested (i.e. to “Season 01 - The Last of Us” and then re-doing the Plex Dance, but no success after multiple attempts.
After much swearing, the solution I found involved: (1) Deleting “The Last of Us” from my Synology Diskstation, (2) Going through the Plex Dance steps, (3) Restarting my Synology Diskstation and waiting for it to come back online, (4) Restarting my Mac, (5) Copying “The Last of Us” back to the Synology Diskstation, (6) Scanning library files. It showed up on first attempt. My interpretation is that JaysPlex7 is likely correct - probably some degree of permissions issue between the Synology and the Mac, or maybe just the Synology, causing the Plex server scan to not “see” the folder/file. I honestly feel less than brilliant for not just restarting the computer and/or Synology at the onset.
Just for fun and because apparently I’m masochistic, I then deleted “The Last of Us”, re-did the Plex Dance to be as sure as I could that it was gone, and then copied it back to the Synology but using nonstandard nomenclature (i.e. The.Last.of.Us.s01e01.1080.mkv) and it showed up fine / scanned successfully. So I don’t think it was a nomenclature issue, but more likely some behind the scenes issue with the Synology.
Again, THANKS!!! to you both for even being generous enough to help. I greatly appreciate your time and willingness to assist. Cheers!