Influence what your friends watch with Plex user reviews

By Simon Cohen Published October 16, 2024

Do your friends look to you for recommendations on which shows and movies they should watch next? Are you, in fact, a tastemaker whose opinions unerringly guide people to the hidden gems that the majority overlook? If so, you may want to check out Plex user reviews. The new feature, which launches today, builds on Plex’s Discover Together platform, which lets friends and family connect with one another via user profiles.

With user reviews, any registered Plex account can now review any Movie, Show, Season, or Episode, and the review can be seen by those in your Plex universe. For now, your reviews are only shared among your Plex friends, in accordance with the privacy settings you set for your Plex profile, but a future update will let you share them with anyone on Plex.

In fact, as Plex prepares for the rollout of public reviews, it’s looking for guinea pigs beta testers to be among the first whose opinions show up for all Plex users. Here’s the form to sign up.

There’s also the ability to flag your reviews as containing spoilers, which is clearly the responsible thing to do when wielding so much power.

Reviews can be written for any title, even those that are in your personal Plex library, but there are some prerequisites before you begin channeling your inner Siskel, Ebert, or A.A. Dowd:

Once written, reviews appear in several places throughout the Plex experience including the detail, profile and activity feed screens. However, as a viewer, you can choose what kinds of reviews appear in these places. You can pick from Plex users & critics, Plex users only, critics only, or no reviews.

As the author of a review, you can choose who sees each review (much like a Facebook post) and once it’s published, you’ll be able to edit or delete it.