I understand why you would think that given the behavior you’ve seen. And I’m not trying to pick on you for how you’ve structured your filesystem or named your files. However, there are real issues with how you’ve done so; I’m pointing these out in the hopes that you can adopt these best practices and have fewer issues in the future.
- Extra information in your filenames can potentially confuse the scanner. If you’re going to include a year, it should be enclosed in parentheses, immediately following the series name. Other information which the scanner doesn’t care about should be enclosed in square brackets so that it will be ignored. Or, you can just place it at the end of the filename after the final hyphen.
- The folder structure where your series are stored should be consistent, and should included only folders representing the show name and the season. Extra folder levels in the hierarchy can confuse the scanner.
- The library should be configured to point to the directory which holds the various series directories. If it points higher in the hierarchy the scanner can incorrectly merge series, such as what you’re experiencing.
After correcting any of these issues, you will likely need to Plex Dance the affected series.
Again, it’s not my intent to browbeat you over this; there are just some things which you can do to make your experience with Plex matching more consistent and supportable.
I hope this helps, and good luck!
