I have a selfish clarifying question. Ultimately, the answer to my question is probably "my code should be more forgiving", but I can't help but ask.

Are there any sort of guarantees — implied or otherwise — that data will have a minimum of fields, like, id?

As I sit here right now, if you load Ted Lasso Season 2 (API URL: https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/97546/season/2 ) returns the following crew member:

{
  "job": "Second Assistant Director",
  "department": "Directing",
  "person_id": "5c932a84c3a36861abe32a17",
  "credit_id": "61582e858e2ba6008be0742c"
}

This is episodes[8].crew[17]. It doesn't even have an id. Which, coincidentally, my JSON parsing code considers table stakes.

Is this… expected? I feel like this should be filtered out and/or rejected on the API level, but I'll be the first to admit it's completely self-centered for me to say so.