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Major Error in "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" Page - Confused with "Dahmer" Series

I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this issue, but I couldn't find any other way to flag it. The IMDb page for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is entirely wrong. It mixes the description and cast of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story with this new series. In fact, the Dahmer page seems to have disappeared, and searches for it on Google lead to this series instead. It’s unclear if the current ratings belong to Dahmer and the page was then modified with this new series' information, but it’s quite confusing. Even the cast lists actors from both shows. This is particularly concerning as the page is currently ranked #3 on the Top 250 TV list. Could someone please look into this?

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@Ozzy​ Thanks, that makes sense. However, even though they are part of the same anthology, these are two completely separate series. The first one, released in 2022, focuses on Dahmer with its own cast, while the current series is about two brothers who kill their parents. What's even more confusing is that under the cast section, some actors are listed as having appeared in episodes from 2022, while others are from 2024. The photos also mix characters from both series, but these are two completely different stories. I’m not sure if the directors are different as well, but this mix-up definitely needs to be addressed. Honestly, I would have preferred to see them separated as two titles, even if they are part of the same anthology. It doesn't make much sense for this series to inherit the ratings of the previous one, especially since they are two distinct titles with different stories. How can they be merged into one? This isn't like True Detective, which always has the same title for its different seasons. It’s a bit like trying to combine the Vengeance Trilogy into one film entry. Additionally, what the correct title and description is that brings together the Monsters Anthology series?

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I have always found the functionality and structure of IMDb to be accurate and well done. It's just with this title that I felt a bit lost, perhaps because in my language, Italian, the title refers only to the new series, while the description only talks about Dahmer. However, I noticed that in English you have fixed it.

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It’s still a huge mess, almost a year later. IMDb has ads all over it, I know they can afford an A.I. to fix the info. Being as they seem to be incapable of doing it themselves

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On Netflix, these are listed as two separate series, not as seasons. Seeming as Netflix is the one who released both of these I believe it should be recorded as they released it. Combining them seems incorrect and unclear. They are not continuations of each other but simply two series with similar structures. They even have different main titles. One is "Monsters - The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" While the other is "Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story". In Dahmer Monster is not plural which shows a single main character (Dahmer). In the Menendez show Monsters is plural because there are two main character brothers not because it is a multi-season show. They also star completely different people. Please fix this to how Netflix, who released these shows, has it. This makes Plex not even recognize the Menendez series unless I make it a season 2 of Dahmer which is incorrect according to the platform that released it, Netflix.

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Your guidelines state as such as an example "For example: The series American Crime Story (2016) originally aired and was displayed under the title "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story". When the second season was announced titled "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story", the Primary title was changed to "American Crime Story" to best fit the overall series, with the season titles as AKAs. This way the anthology series is more accurately represented on IMDb for users, as opposed to listing the primary title as "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" when later seasons tell different stories, with different titles" These shows share a similar title. However the shows we are talking about do not. If your insisting they do. Then some title needs to be made to represent both of them like the example above. Dahmer no longer shows up on imbd as it only shows up as the menendez series. Some title like "Monsters" needs to be made to include both of them better. Then the individual seasons can be named more accurately as was done in the example. Again, these are differently named series with no name in common which is why this is so hard in the first place. Please do some form of correction to aptly separate these shows whether it's all together separating them as different shows or creating a better series title to incorporate both of them with each season being named what the show is named.

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Monsters is appearing on Dahmer's page, each of which has its own TV series, making it impossible to search for the first one! Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is bugged, appearing with “Dahmer”!

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This page is a disaster of inaccuracy. The dismissive attitude of the responses of the IMDb team are inexcusable. Its list as 4 seasons but there’s no episode listings or descriptions for 3 and 4. Even peter’s is listed as being in 22 episodes, but he was only in season 1. There’s multiple more inaccuracies . Not to mention, Netflix considers the Jeffrey dahmer story and the menendez story to be two separate series with different titles, AND ITS THEIR SHOW . WHO is IMDb to just decide something different.