Kodi doesn't find any episodes of my TV Shows. How can I fix that?

Hi,

I mostly use my TV to watch (only one remote instead of having to use my phone as remote). Sometimes I use Kodi, because it can handle the subtitles far better than my TV. If I have friends staying over at my place, it would be nice if they could browse through my Kodi library.

Because I mostly watch on TV and browse through folders I don’t want unnecessarily long file names. When I get a new TV show, I immediately change episode names to something (more or less) unique and as short as possible (series title is in the folder name and not really needed in episode name).

For example:
[bob-the-great-superspreader]series.full.name.and.subtitle-s01e01-1988.1080p.BluRay.h265.AC3.GREETINGS-TO-MY-MOTHER[hash].mkv => sfn-s01e01.mkv

In the folder I put a tvshow.nfo file containing only a link to the season on TMDB.

Folder structure

Kodi does find the folder and displays the information of the show, when I list TV shows > Titles. But it doesn’t find any of the episodes.

I know and understand, that Kodi wasn’t made for people like me, who usually browse through folders and take the time to rename files. How can I make it work for me with as little effort as possible?

Kind regards