How do you view tv or movie playlists created in iTunes on Apple TV?

I have iTunes 12.1.0.50 running on a Mac and a 2nd generation Apple TV with the latest software update on it.  However I am aware that Apple is not providing any more updates to the 2nd generation Apple TV.  I have some tv shows purchased on iTunes that I'd like to view in a playlist so that they can play back to back (kind of like it works on Netflix).  So, I created a smart playlist to contain all of The Walking Dead episodes in the right sequence and works very well when I play the movies on my Mac in iTunes.  However, I want to play this on my 2nd generation Apple TV without streaming directly from my iTunes on my Mac.  From searching on the web it seems like people have done this by setting the "Show Playlists" settings under "Audio Settings" from "Music only" to "All" and that after doing this the tv and video playlists are supposed to show up somewhere in Apple TV.  It doesn't appear to be working for me so my first question is "where" are these playlists supposed to show up e.g.(under "Movies" for movies and under "TV shows" for tv shows?  or is it in the Music playlists?)  I've looked everywhere and it doesn't appear to work.
I have even setup Home Sharing to view my playlists directly on my Mac from Apple TV and even then I don't see the playlists that contain tv shows or movies.  So one thought I had is that the latest iTunes update broke this feature for 2nd generation Apple TVs (since other people have mentioned using this feature).   I have also tried creating a normal playlist to add movies or tv shows to but I get a message from iTunes that it needs to download the whole movie from the cloud to put it in a playlist (which I find clunky).  I allowed the download to happen once just to see if the normal playlist would suddenly appear on Apple TV but it didn't show up either.  So, I'm not sure if I need to get the 3rd generation Apple TV to have this feature now or if those units are broke as well.....or if there is something else I need to do to get this to work.
Any help would be appreciated.

Playlists AFAIK do not sync with the cloud.  The only way you could posibly do it is Home Sharing from iTunes if the playlists appear in Computers,

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