I am unsure if this is the place to post this, if not please move it or redirect me to the proper category.
IMDb decided to combine 3 Netflix documentaries into 1 series. These being:
Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
While these do belong in a ‘Monster’ anthology, they are not 1 series. They are not shown or advertised as seasons, only mentions of “From the same creators of …”. When you go on Netflix and search for them, they are displayed as 3 different entries and not under seasons of 1 show.
I believe these 3 documentaries should either be kept as 3 distinctive series or if you wish to keep them together at least called it ‘Monster’ because it makes so sense to have the other 2 as seasons under ‘Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ when they have nothing to do with Dahmer.
Netflix still shows them as 3 different series. Trakt is able to migrate the page to TMBD and separate the data of each season as a different shows. I requested they do the opposite with I am Groot when IMDb decided to separate each episode into movies for some odd reason and Trakt was able to adjust, I don’t see why they can’t for this.
Ahh I see, so they are 3 different series on Trakt, it’s just the Old Dahmer entry is now a series combining all 3. Trakt needs to delete it and merge the watched data to the new one?
Yep. The combined one is a “bad” one which TMDB already removed from their end which I believe trakt didn’t get around to removing it yet. You can tell because if you go on the website, there’s a TMDB link.
If you click it and it shows a “page cannot be found” then it’s an orphan trakt entry and technically should be deleted.
The TMDB link for the individual monster show actually goes to the TMDB page so it means it’s correctly active and linked properly to TMDB.
We will wait and see what trakt support says in the morning when they wake up. I’ve tagged one of them and he’s pretty responsive once he’s online.
to be fair, I think this change happened within the last 2 hours because I was watching shows and marking them watched. Then boop, out of nowhere Dahmer came back up on my Up Next and I was so confused haha
I’ve merged the data of the page that had the 3 seasons with the 3 individual shows.
We list the shows as they list on TMDB and what matters there is how they originally aired. So if they have 3 different pages for them on Netflix, that’s how we list them.
