PowerBI throwing errors for validated OData data source

Question

Hi,
I've been creating OData web services for various operations for months now, and validate the service output using odata.org for all versions of Odata (V1-V4)
Yet when my co-worker tries to load one of these OData services as a data source, PowerBI throws this error:
[DataSource.Error] Cannot parse OData response result.  Error: A node of
type 'StartArray' was read from the JSON reader when trying to read a
value of a property; however, a 'PrimitiveValue' or 'StartObject' node
was expected.
The only OData source that has worked with PowerBI is one in which we turned off all properties that were not Strings.  In other words, as soon as the source has property types like Arrays, Objects or Dates, we get errors with PowerBI.  
But the data validates with odata.org validator, so I am at a complete loss to understand how to "fix" data which is not broken.
Is there a guide available somewhere showing what "subset" of OData that PowerBI accepts?  And are there plans to update PowerBI in the future to accept valid OData?
miles
Sample Odata that PowerBI chokes on:
  "d": {
    "results": [
        "__metadata": {
          "type": "cnevids_staging.videos",
          "id": "http://slcnpde093:3013/cne/odata/videos('NTBmYjBkODYzNDEwZmMwZGQ4MjQ2ZDIy')",
          "uri": "http://slcnpde093:3013/cne/odata/videos('NTBmYjBkODYzNDEwZmMwZGQ4MjQ2ZDIy')"
        "Id": "NTBmYjBkODYzNDEwZmMwZGQ4MjQ2ZDIy",
        "article_url": "",
        "brand_id": "NTBmYWZlNTg5M2U5ZjNlODZhMDAwMDAx",
        "buy_call_to_action": "",
        "buy_url": "",
        "cloudinary_version": "1367966946",
        "cover_story": false,
        "description": "Glamour March 2013: The Guys From Nashville Play \"Nail Polish or Country Song?\"",
        "do_not_publish": false,
        "duration_in_ms": 137000,
        "encode_version": "",
        "episode_number": 12,
        "index_within_season": 11,
        "index_within_series": 11,
        "monetize": false,
        "music_attribution": "",
        "permaslug": "glamour-march-2013-the-guys-from-nashville-pl",
        "poster_image_version": "1362346875",
        "recency_rank": 0,
        "slug": "glamour-march-2013-the-guys-from-nashville-pl",
        "state": "active",
        "suppress_on_the_scene": false,
        "title": "Glamour March 2013: The Guys From Nashville Play \"Nail Polish or Country Song?\"",
        "trending_index": {
          "__metadata": {
            "type": "cnevids_staging.videos.trend"
          "daily": 0,
          "weekly": 0,
          "monthly": 0,
          "all_time": 0,
          "based_on_count_day": null,
          "yesterday_view_count": 0,
          "bias": 0
        "videographer_unknown": true

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