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Saturday, December 2nd, 2023

Jumble in the episodes of a series

Hi,

The 2017 docudrama miniseries « When we rise » (>>> https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5292622 <<<) is made of 8 episodes lasting altogether 341 minutes (>>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Rise <<<). As a consequence, there is a confusion in the running time of the whole miniseries on the IMDb welcome page:


I created a contribution to delete the wrong running time. Please make sure it will be done: >>> https://contribute.imdb.com/contribution/231202-135947-812000 <<<

But the most confusing on IMDb for this miniseries is the list of episodes. Indeed, each episode of this docudrama lasts around 40 minutes (>>> https://www.amazon.com/When-We-Rise-Season-1/dp/B06XC8NL3J <<<). There are 4 different directors who each made 2 episodes (look at the episodes section: >>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Rise <<<)

* Gus Van Sant: episodes 1&2 (85 minutes)

* Dee Rees: episodes 3&4 (85 minutes)

* Thomas Schlamme: episodes 5&6 (85 minutes)

* Dustin Lance Black: episodes 7&8 (85 minutes)


So, if you look at the episode sections of IMDb, you realize everything is mixed. A first contributor gathered together the episodes made by the same director, which is okay. Indeed, TV broadcasted this miniseries in 4 times (look at the episodes section: >>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Rise <<<):
* The 27th of February for the 2 Gus Van Sant episodes.

* The 1st of March for the 2 Dee Rees episodes.

* The 2nd of March for the 2 Thomas Schlamme episodes

* The 3rd of March for the 2 Dustin Lance Black episodes.

It makes in that case 4 episodes in 2 parts, each lasting 85 minutes. So, if that:

* The title of each episode has to be corrected (for example, episode 1 has to be named « Part I and Part II »). 
* The running time of each episode has to be corrected (85 minutes each).

* The release date of some episodes has to be corrected.

* The episodes 5 to 8 (probably added later by a second contributor) have to be deleted, cos they duplicate what is on the first four episodes.

That is the simplest, because the user ratings on IMDb for episodes 5 to 8 are suspicious (very low, whereas the docudrama as a whole has a good grade on IMDb and I did not see such a difference between the episodes while watching them). 

Moreover, if you want to keep the structure of 8 episodes, I do not see how you will split the current 433 user ratings between the 2 episodes directed by Gus van Sant: indeed, there is currently only one IMDb page for both episodes.


Thanks for your help

Best regards

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I fixed this before. According to IMDb rules, there are only 4 episodes because they aired on 4 nights without any noticeable break between the two "parts" of the night. This is one of the most frustrating parts of contributing to IMDb. Someone can come behind you and destroy all the effort to make things right.

The right thing to do here is get rid of the extra "four" parts. Rename the first episode to back to what it was and disallow anyone from creating any more episodes.

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Thank you @adrian​ for your help.

Can someone from IMDb please fix that?

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